zipper

Meanings

Noun

• A zip fastener.
• A pressure-sensitive plastic closure.
• A leucine zipper.
• A scar on a person's body.
• An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
• A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
• A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).

Verb

• to close a zipper.
• to put a zipper on an article.

Related

Similar words

• slide fastener
• zip , zip fastener

Origin

• 1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.