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zip it

zip it is the alternative form of zip one's lip.

Meaning of zip one's lip

Verb

zip one's lip (third-person singular simple present zips one's lip, present participle zipping one's lip, simple past and past participle zipped one's lip)

  1. (idiomatic, imperative, informal, often) To refrain from or to stop talking; to be quiet; shut up.
    • Why don’t you just zip your lip? I’m tired of listening to you.
    Synonyms:
    button it, button one’s lip, can it, put a sock in it, shut it, shut one’s face, shut one’s gob, shut one’s mouth, shut one’s trap, shut up

Forms of zip it

third-person singular presentzips it
present participlezipping it
past participlezipped it
pastzipped it

Questions about zip it

What is zip it the alternative form of?
Zip it is the alternative form of zip one's lip.

Words near zip it in the dictionary

  1. zip fasteners
  2. zip file
  3. zip files
  4. zip gun
  5. zip guns
  6. zip it
  7. zip line
  8. zip liner
  9. zip liners
  10. zip lines
  11. zip of death

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zip it (page history and authors); zip one's lip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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