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Nouns

• (n) a quantity of no importance
  • 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
  aught, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zippo, cypher, cipher,
• (n) a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail postal code, postcode, ZIP code,
• (n) forceful exertion
  • he plays tennis with great energy
  • he's full of zip
  vigor, vigour, energy,
• (n) a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper,

Verbs

• (v) close with a zipper
  • Zip up your jacket--it's cold
  zipper, zip up,
• (v) move very fast
  • The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed
  hurry, travel rapidly, speed,

Synonyms

aught goose egg nada naught nil nix nothing null zero zilch zippo cypher cipher zipper zip up postal code postcode ZIP code hurry travel rapidly speed vigor vigour energy slide fastener zip fastener

Antonyms

unzip

See also

accelerate quicken speed up speed

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