zip

1. 1.

   close with a zipper

   “Zip up your jacket--it's cold”

   Synonymszip upzipper

   Broaderfasten
2. 2.

   move very fast

   “The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed”

   Synonymstravel rapidlyspeedhurry

   Broadertravel

   Narrowerflitrunzoom

Other forms of zip

plural

zips·

past tense or participle

zipped

present participle

zipping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about zip

What does zip mean?

zip means "a quantity of no importance". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in zip?

zip has 1 syllable: zip. In IPA it is /ˈzɪp/.

What is another word for zip?

Close synonyms include nothing, nil, nix, nada, null. 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 zip a common word?

zip is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with zip?

1 word rhymes with zip. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.