zip

(1): nothing; zero
(2): energy; vigor.

(3) a worthless person; a person who amounts to zero.

(4) to fasten or unfasten with a zipper.

1. - "I don't know zip about you."

- There was no mail today. Nothing. Zip.

2. "I need something that will give me more zip. "

3. Khalaf is such a zip. No brains in his head at all.

4. Zip your jacket, Reham.

by Iyad Mahdood January 26, 2013

zip

An extension for compacted files.

A useful numerical code that traces the city and state.

by larstait October 11, 2003

zip

A racial slur referring to people of East Asian descent. Most commonly it is a shortened version of the term zipperhead, but may also have a seperate origin as Vietnam War slang, an acronym for "Zero Intelligence Potential", in reference to enemy combatants/civilians (of Southeast Asian descent) that were unlikely to provide any worthwhile intelligence information, ie: just kill them, no reason to interrogate them.

Veteran Joe: "Learn English ya got-dam zip!"

by PCone November 14, 2009

ZIP

The accumulated time from pausing live TV on a DVR

How much zip do we have on this show? Zip past the commercials.

by TowerKendy August 29, 2011

zip

Vietnamese, a Vietnamese. Perjorative and bigoted term used by American soldiers during the Vietnam war. May have originated as an abbreviation of the expression 'zipper-mouth.'

"Nothin in the vil now but dead zips."

by Mogo the Mugger April 19, 2006

zip

1. To compress files into .zip format.
2. An Iomega Zip cartridge.
3. To send something easily and quickly. (This is the dictionary definition that predates the other two.)

Can you send me that Photoshop file on a Syquest?

Dude, fuhgeddaboudit. Zip it and put it on a zip, and zip it over to me.

by vanilla g-lotto December 29, 2004

zip

Zip is also very slangily,well-known as a synonym of nothing.

I didn't study zip for the next day's exam, so I blew it.

by Eloy R. August 3, 2005