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Zippo|ˈzɪpəʊ|
Also zippo.
The proprietary name of a make of cigarette lighter.
1934Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 July 270 Zippo Manufacturing Company, Bradford, Pa... Zippo for pocket lighter of the pyrophoric type. 1938Trade Marks Jrnl. 16 Mar. 320/1 Zippo..Pyrophoric lighters. Miriam Barcroft Blaisdell..trading as Zippo Manufacturing Company,..Bradford, State of Pennsylvania, United States of America; manufacturers. 1964G. McDonald Running Scared iii. 35 The Zippo lighter he had given Casey. 1966G. Lyall Shooting Script xxii. 174 Luiz flicked a Zippo under my nose. 1977McKnight & Tobler Bob Marley ix. 108 A novel sleeve made to look like a zippo lighter. Ibid. 112 Gone was the zippo, replaced by a picture of Marley smoking a kingsize splif. 1982R. Ludlum Parsifal Mosaic viii. 111 He extracted one [cigarette] and lit it with an old, tarnished Zippo purchased a quarter of a century ago. |