slide fastener

Questions about slide fastener

What does slide fastener mean?

slide fastener means "a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab".

What is another word for slide fastener?

Close synonyms include zip, zipper, zip fastener. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slide fastener a common word?

slide fastener is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.