zippy
/ˈzɪpi
/adjective (zippier, zippiest) informal
1Bright, fresh, or lively: a wine with a zippy, zingy, almost citrusy tang...
- The result is new-minted, bright, and zippy, ready for a TV special, which may well be coming.
- It was a lively, zingy show with zippy dancing, and I like dancing a helluva lot more than syrupy lyrics.
- I'm feeling great - energetic, zippy, happy, sparkly and glowing!
1.1Fast or speedy: the car is zippy around town...
- What they have in common is an urge to combine zippy new technologies with real-life social interaction.
- Those of you who remember the old zippy racing favourite Micro Machines will have some idea of what you're in for here.
- In building a car, do you use lightweight materials so that it is zippy, but a deathtrap in an accident?
Derivatives
zippily
- Another strong point is that the computer-assisted sequences showing the team's amazing ball skills are very zippily done, making you wish football always looked like this.
- It all moved as zippily as one of those old James Cagney-Warner Brothers epics.
- The software is a huge download, but once installed it runs zippily enough as it interfaces with the Net.
zippiness
- It's a good track, well constructed, blazing along with a blast of Blink 182-like zippiness, but the backing vocals are excruciatingly bad.
- And really, apart from the zippiness of the original's title, what's the point of splitting whingers along gender lines?
- Young viewers will most likely find the film too lacking in the zippiness they are used to in CGI cartoons.