zipper

1. 1.

   close with a zipper

   “Zip up your jacket--it's cold”

   Synonymszip upzip

   Broaderfasten

Other forms of zipper

plural

zippers·

past tense

zipperred·

present participle

zipperring·

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 zipper

What does zipper mean?

zipper means "a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in zipper?

zipper has 2 syllables: zip-per. The stress falls on "zip". In IPA it is /ˈzɪpɚ/.

What is another word for zipper?

Close synonyms include slide fastener, zip, zip fastener, zip up, zip. 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 zipper a common word?

zipper is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.