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zips

/(t)sɪps/

zips is the plural of zip.

zips is the third-person singular simple present indicative of zip.

Meaning of zip

Noun

zip (plural zips)

  1. The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
    Synonyms:
    whizz, zing
  2. (informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A zip fastener.
    • Catrin: What sort of doctor wears a suit? My doctor wears a fleece. Can see his nasty little chest hairs poking through the zip…2010, Gary Owen, Love Steals Us from Loneliness, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 16
  4. (slang) Zero; nothing.
    • I know zip about economics.
  5. A trip on a zipline.
  6. (informal) A zip file.

See all 23 meanings of zip

Proper noun capitalized: Zips

Zips

  1. A region of north-eastern Slovakia, Spiš region
  2. (historical) A former province of Hungary, consisting of part of north-eastern Slovakia and a small adjoining region in Poland, Spiš province
    Synonyms:
    Spiš

Noun (1) capitalized: Zips

Zips

  1. (plural) plural of Zip

Noun (2) capitalized: ZIPs

ZIPs

  1. (plural) plural of ZIP

Synonyms of zips

  • Spiš

Origin of zips

Borrowed from German Zips, from Middle High German Cypis, Cypus, possibly from Old Hungarian Schypis (modern Szepes).

Phrases with zips

Questions about zips

What does zips mean?
Zips means a region of north-eastern Slovakia, Spiš region.
What is zips the plural of?
Zips is the plural of zip.
What part of speech is zips?
Zips can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce zips?
Zips is pronounced /(t)sɪps/.

Words near zips in the dictionary

  1. ZIPPs
  2. zippy
  3. ZIPRA
  4. ziprasidone
  5. Ziprkowski-Margolis syndrome
  6. zips
  7. zips down
  8. zips it
  9. zips one's lip
  10. zips up
  11. Zipser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zips (page history and authors); Zips (page history and authors); ZIPs (page history and authors); zip (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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