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zips up

zips up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)

  1. (transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
    • Always check if you've zipped up your fly before you go out.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) To close as if with a zip fastener, especially one's mouth; to stop talking.
    • I'll zip up my lip.
  3. (transitive) To convert a computer file into a smaller package.

Questions about zips up

What is zips up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Zips up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of zip up.

Words near zips up in the dictionary

  1. Ziprkowski-Margolis syndrome
  2. zips
  3. zips down
  4. zips it
  5. zips one's lip
  6. zips up
  7. Zipser
  8. Zipser German
  9. Zipser Germans
  10. Zipsers
  11. ziptie

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