Definitions for Zipper

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Zipper zip·per

Spelling: [zip-er]

IPA: /ˈzɪp ər/

Zipper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in Zipper (eipprz).

Definitions for Zipper

noun

1. Also called slide fastener. a device used for fastening clothing, valises, etc., consisting of two toothed tracks or spiral metal or plastic coils, each bordering one of two edges to be joined, and a piece that either interlocks or separates them when pulled.
2. a person or thing that zips.
3. a rubber and fabric boot or overshoe fastened up the leg by a zipper.
4. a large illuminated display of news bulletins or advertisements that rapidly and continously flash by on an upper part of a building.

verb (used with or without object)

1. zip2 .

Origin of Zipper

1920-25, Americanism; formerly a trademark; see zip¹, -er¹

Examples for Zipper

They have two front welt pockets, two back welt pockets, two hook closures at the waist, and a zipper fly.

I lowered her zipper, she did mine, and tugged my jeans off.

He drew a zipper open in his fancy blouse, dragged out the Bull Durham and started to roll his own.

Just as Strauss-Kahn critics joked that his zipper could be his undoing, Sarkozy cynics bet on a baby.

When he went to prison, he had a couple of tattoos, he says—a star, a zipper around his wrist.

I am showing you Commission Exhibit 162, which appears to be a jacket with a zipper.

Attach tassels on zipper ends, made with a few strands of yarn.

Gru has a classic no-frills jacket with zipper, plus businesslike turtleneck, drainpipe trousers, and pointed Mod boots.

Phil Conover pulled the zipper of his flight suit up the front of his long, thin body and came into the living room.

Unfortunately, I was wearing one of their dresses today, but at the last minute the zipper broke!