slide fastener

slide fastener

n (Clothing & Fashion) chiefly US and Canadian another name for zip¹

zip•per

(ˈzɪp ər)
n. 1. Also called slide fastener. a device for fastening clothing, luggage, etc., consisting of two parallel tracks of teeth or coils that can be interlocked or separated by the pulling of a slide between them. 2. a large illuminated display of news bulletins or advertisements that rapidly and continously flash by on an upper part of a building. 3. a person or thing that zips. v.t., v.i. 4. zip ². [1920–25, Amer.; formerly a trademark; see zip¹, -er¹]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

slide fastener - a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tabzip fastener, zipper, zipcardigan - knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipperdress, frock - a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodicefastening, holdfast, fastener, fixing - restraint that attaches to something or holds something in placeskirt - a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and womentrouser, pant - (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately; "he had a sharp crease in his trousers"

Translations

fermeture Éclair