zipper

About 0.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A zip fastener.

   He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.

2. noun A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
3. noun A leucine zipper.
4. noun A scar on a person's body.
5. noun An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
6. noun A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
7. noun A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
8. noun A zipline.

Similar words

zip up slide fastener zip zip-fastener rack slide chute closing close shutdown

Often followed by

and of on down in foot is to was

Word family

zippered zippering zippers