zipping up
zipping up is the present participle and gerund of zip up.
Meaning of zip up
Verb
zip up (third-person singular simple present zips up, present participle zipping up, simple past and past participle zipped up)
- To close with a zip fastener.
- Always check if you've zipped up your fly before you go out.
- To close as if with a zip fastener, especially one's mouth; to stop talking.
- I'll zip up my lip.
- To convert a computer file into a smaller package.
Questions about zipping up
- What is zipping up the present participle and gerund of?
- Zipping up is the present participle and gerund of zip up.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: zipping up (page history and authors); zip up (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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