zippedadj.
/zɪpt/, U.S. /zɪpt/ 1. Of a garment, bag, or other item: fastened by means of a zip; having a zip.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > closed by a zipper
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [adjective] > furnished with zip
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1931 Daily Mail 2 Sept. 15/3 Both leather and tweed jackets are now being made with an inverted zipped pleat between the shoulder blades.
1946 ‘S. Russell’ To Bed with Grand Music i. 13 She picked up her mother's zipped travelling bag.
1972 D. Haston In High Places xi. 117 Down suit and fully zipped windproofs.
2006 Simply Knitting June 11/1 There's also a zipped pocket that's perfect for essentials such as scissors, stitch markers and cable needles.
2. figurative. Of a person's mouth or lips: tightly closed (indicating unwillingness to talk or divulge information, or suppressed emotion or determined reticence). Chiefly in zipped lip.Recorded earliest in the compound best-zipped.
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1942 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 8 Feb. 7/1 If Uncle Sam really values the silence of people who know things, then he ought to give some sort of decoration to Lee Roy Phillips for one of the best-zipped lips in the service.
1943 J. Goodell They sent me to Iceland i. 17 Apparently Canadians were wiser in the matter of keeping a ‘zipped lip’.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 158 Blobb inquired around about the Trystero organization, running into zipped mouths nearly every way he turned.
2012 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 19 Oct. He ruthlessly destroyed countless lives. And got away with it because of a culture of zipped lips and fear.
3. Computing. Also ZIPped. Of a file: compressed through having been added to a zip archive file (see zip n.1 3).
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1989 comp.sys.ibm.pc 17 Apr. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 10 Oct. 2011) I will send a uuencoded [sic]/zipped file to anyone who wants it until April 24.
1994 CompuServe Mag. Mar. 57/2 A ZIPped version of the three-part file series on traveling to Europe, covering planning, packing, etiquette, food, payments and more.
2001 W. R. Stanek et al. Microsoft Frontpage 2002 Unleashed xii. 279 Zipped files can be decompressed on just about any system as long as the reader has an unzip utility.
2011 Computeractive (Nexis) 1 Sept. Zipped files are quicker to download and occupy less hard disk space.
Compounds
With adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to uses of zip v.1 with adverbs, as in zipped-in, zipped-up, etc. Cf. zip v.1 Phrasal verbs.
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1934 N.Y. Times 5 Aug. (Late City ed.) i. 14/3 (advt.) Shetland tweed swagger coat with detachable zipped-in fur lining.
1936 Concord (Mass.) Enterprise 30 Sept. 3/4 A fall costume of grey suede which..has padded shoulders, a zipped-up bodice and a becoming hat to match.
1984 A. Maupin Babycakes (1989) vii. 51 Only the moon lit the faces of the lovers, snuggled together under a zipped-open sleeping bag.
2004 G. Johnson Powder Wars (2005) xi. 128 One of them had a plazzy bag with £30,000 in it stashed inside his zipped-up tracky top.
2013 PC Today Jan. 63 The bag sports a zipped-down organization section that grants access to a bevy of internal storage units.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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