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unzipper

unzipper verb: to unzip.

Verb

unzipper (third-person singular simple present unzippers, present participle unzippering, simple past and past participle unzippered)

  1. (transitive) To unzip.
    • He unzippers his fly, but he does not ask Mae to come to him as Lloyd did in scene 1.1998, Robert J. Andreach, Creating the self in the contemporary American theatre, page 30

Noun

unzipper (plural unzippers)

  1. A program that extracts files from compressed archives.
    • The problem is that you may not have the necessary unzipper.1992 March 31, PC Mag, volume 11, number 6
    • Which comes first, the ZIP file or the unzipper? You can't uncompress a file containing PKUNZIP unless you first have PKUNZIP.1995, Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer, page 202

Forms of unzipper

Verb
third-person singular presentunzippers
present participleunzippering
past participleunzippered
pastunzippered
Noun
pluralunzippers

Origin of unzipper

From un- + zipper.

From unzip + -er.

Questions about unzipper

What does unzipper mean?
Unzipper means to unzip.
What part of speech is unzipper?
Unzipper can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of unzipper?
The past tense of unzipper is unzippered.

Words near unzipper in the dictionary

  1. Unzent
  2. unzestful
  3. unzip
  4. unzippable
  5. unzipped
  6. unzipper
  7. unzippered
  8. unzippering
  9. unzippers
  10. unzipping
  11. unzippings

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