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to zip

32 2.3

To move very quickly from one place to another

verb
/zɪp/

Informal

: ir volando

And he could, you know, zip from town to town, go undercover.

And he could, you know, zip from town to town, go undercover.

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Examples

Boy, look at him zip along!

Cul-de-sac (1966)
Zipping along, never seeing the hills or the trees.

A Separate Peace (2004)
And then you just zip right off the corner.
Maybe we could zip on over to your house, I can make a tuna sandwich.

Plump Fiction (1997)
And so now Doug is zipping along and he looks up and goes, wow.
I watched a neon-green lizard zip up a blue concrete wall.

Fiction book (1997)
Small individual robots, both free-wheeling and integrated, come zipping out to clean up the mess.

Fiction book (1997)
We're in business at the South Pole, searching for neutrinos zipping through Earth.

Academic text (2000)
You and your stoner friends zipping around on skateboards.

Idle Hands (1999)
The athlete zipped past the finish line and won the race.

Synonyms

to hurry

vsto zip

∞ 1.0

To move or act quickly because there is little time

is fast movement defined by speed itself rather than urgency or time pressure

to speed

vsto zip

137 1.0

To move or travel quickly, often faster than allowed

is fast movement focused on very high velocity rather than rule breaking

to zip by

vsto zip

Informal

3 3.6

To pass very quickly, as when a car goes by or time moves fast

is general movement at great speed without focusing on passing something

to zip over

vsto zip

Informal

1 5.1

To go quickly to a nearby place for a short visit

is general fast movement not limited to quick trips or short visits

to zoop

vsto zip

Informal

9.9

To move very quickly with a lot of energy, often to go somewhere

is similar but lacks the extra sense of lively or energetic movement

Antonyms

slow

∞ 1.0

Moving or happening at a low speed

lag

46 4.1

A period of time when something happens later than expected

Idioms

to zip someone's lip

Informal

8.4

To keep quiet and not tell others about something

Phrasal Verbs

to zip up

18 1.7

To close clothes or a bag with a zipper

to zip by

Informal

3 3.6

To pass very quickly, as when a car goes by or time moves fast

to zip over

Informal

1 5.1

To go quickly to a nearby place for a short visit

to zip up

Specialized

1 4.1

To compress files into a .zip file

to zip a file

Specialized

3.5

To put more than one file into one smaller file for sending or saving

Compounds

ZIP code

35 1.6

A group of numbers used in a United States postal address to sort mail

zip gun

NSFW

2 9.9

A simple homemade pistol made from spare parts

zip fastener

2.3

A thing that closes clothes or bags by joining two rows of teeth with a sliding tab

How Fast

to zip

Informal

32 2.3

sprint

55 2.1

to run

∞ 1.0

to walk

∞ 1.0

to crawl

406 1.0

Surface Forms

zip infinitive

zipped past

zipped past participle

zipping present participle

zips third person singular

Etymology

To zip in the sense 'move very quickly' comes from the quick 'zip' sound people use for fast motion and from the sliding action of a zipper, so to zip is to move very fast.