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zippoing

zippoing is the present participle and gerund of zippo.

Meaning of zippo

Verb

zippo (third-person singular simple present zippos, present participle zippoing, simple past and past participle zippoed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To light on fire.
    • I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.1987, Reuben Noel, Nancy Noel, Saigon for a song

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Questions about zippoing

What is zippoing the present participle and gerund of?
Zippoing is the present participle and gerund of zippo.

Words near zippoing in the dictionary

  1. zipping one's lip
  2. zipping up
  3. zippingly
  4. zippo
  5. zippoed
  6. zippoing
  7. zippola
  8. Zipporah
  9. zippos
  10. ZIPPs
  11. zippy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zippoing (page history and authors); zippo (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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