zipper

Meanings

1. A zip fastener.
2. A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
3. A leucine zipper.
4. A scar on a person's body.
5. An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
6. A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
7. A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
8. A zipline.

1. To close a zipper.
2. To put a zipper on an article.
3. To act in a manner similar to a zipper.
4. To act in a manner similar to a zipper closing; to interleave.
5. To unzipper.

Etymology

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.