zipper

CEFRB1

/ˈzɪpɚ/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A fastening with two rows of teeth joined by a slider.
02
noun
Extra detail
A leucine zipper.

Examples

A tent with a floor and a zipper is bug tight.
My zipper stuck halfway up.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
A zip fastener.
A scar on a person's body.

More examples

In context

This zipper doesn't zip smoothly.
He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.
He zippered his sweater against the cold.

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The metal teeth of the blank got stuck halfway up the jacket.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

I also competed in track and field at Idaho, and it's all because of putting the shot that I've got my long scar, my zipper, down the back of my neck.
1969, Jerry Kramer, Farewell to football, page 111
Skills acquired include learning the "Flea Hop" and the "Tarzan Swing" as well as "Riding the Zipper" (sliding 400 feet on a cable between two mountain peaks), canoeing in white-water rapids, bushwacking and learning to "rappel" hundreds of feet down sheer rock cliffs on a rope.
1975 July 26, The Barium Messenger, Barium Springs, NC, page 2, column 3
Making the transition from high school to college teams, for instance, he could not believe the scars his new players were sporting. "So many athletes had zippers down the side of their knee, or knees; they thought nothing of it and called this or that a Band-Aid operation. […]
1979, Don Atyeo, Blood & guts, violence in sports, page 227
[…] the usual gap between the time the last strike of the day departed and the first night hecklers arrived was closed with "zippers" — night fighters who, using day fighter tactics, proceeded to the target in daylight in time to relieve the last day blanket patrol.
1949, Walter Karig, Battle Report
They would handle all the night combat air patrols, the night hecklers who would go over the enemy airfields, and we formed a new little gimmick called "zippers" to help close that gap between the time the daylight strikes left the target and darkness.
1993, E. T. Wooldridge, Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection, page 268

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Origin

noun

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.

Deep Dive

noun

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The metal teeth of the blank— got stuck halfway up the jacket.

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noun

The metal teeth of the blank got stuck halfway up the jacket.