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zip
noun
verb
A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail
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noun
A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail
noun
A quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
“It looked like nothing I had ever seen before”
noun
Forceful exertion
“He plays tennis with great energy”
verb
Close with a zipper
“Zip up your jacket — it's cold”
verb
Move very fast
“The runner zipped past us at breakneck pace”
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It looked like nothing I had ever seen before
Reduced to nil all the work we had done
We racked up a pathetic goose egg
It was all for naught
I didn't hear zilch about it
He plays tennis with great energy
He's full of zip
Zip up your jacket — it's cold
The runner zipped past us at breakneck pace
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