zipper

Speech parts

1. zipper - Noun

2. zipper - Verb

Meaning

close with a zipper

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

zip zip up slide fastener zip fastener rivet velcro dart speed close hasp nothing link joint catch shut
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Antonyms

all end effect loss necessary crawler
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Hypernyms

secure fix fixing fasten fastening fastener

Hyponyms

fly

Phrases with the word

zipper plant zipper down zipper up zipper tape black and yellow zipper spider

Examples

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. George Burns

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. Ray Bradbury

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult. Tom Robbins

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper. Emo Philips

The zipper opened all the way down our spines. Jeffrey Eugenides

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the Examiner for the first time. Simon Armitage

Close letter words and terms

zipped zipped-up zippeite zipper down zipper machine zipper merge