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zipless

zipless adjective: without a zip fastener.

Adjective

zipless (not comparable)

  1. Without a zip fastener.
    • "The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.1994, Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!
    • No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]2006, Anthony McDonald, Adam
  2. (figuratively, informal) Without complications and hindrances.
    • For the true, ultimate zipless A-1 fuck, it was necessary that you never get to know the man very well.1973, Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 12
    • Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus […]2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory

zipless meaning in Urdu

zipless in Urdu

وقتی ہیجان

Examples of zipless in a sentence

  • […] wedding planners who would check out venues, prices, caterers and all that stuff and then put it together for us, so it would be a zipless wedding.2004, Jane Isenberg, Hot on the Trail:
  • And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless […]2007, James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film:

Synonyms of zipless

Origin of zipless

From zip + -less, the figurative sense coined (as “zipless fuck”) by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (1973), see quotations.

Words formed from zipless

Questions about zipless

What does zipless mean?
Zipless means without a zip fastener.
What is zipless in Urdu?
Zipless in Urdu is وقتی ہیجان. See Zipless meaning in Urdu.
How do you use zipless in a sentence?
[…] wedding planners who would check out venues, prices, caterers and all that stuff and then put it together for us, so it would be a zipless wedding.
What part of speech is zipless?
Zipless is an adjective.

Words near zipless in the dictionary

  1. ziphodonts
  2. ziphosuchian
  3. ziphosuchians
  4. Zipkin
  5. Zipkins
  6. zipless
  7. ziplessly
  8. ziplessness
  9. ziplike
  10. zipline
  11. ziplined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zipless (page history and authors); zipless (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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