to zip up
18
1.7
- phrasal verb
- /zɪp ʌp/
:
cerrar la cremallera
- After trying on the dress, she needed help to zip up the back.
- zip up your jacket
- zip up your coat
- zip up your parka
You're going to try and zip it up to keep everything else inside safe.
- You're going to try and zip it up to keep everything else inside safe.
- This is the mock neck puffer jacket you guys can see zip it up.
- But they do zip up at the front, so it is like a nice snug fit.
- That's just like litter box and you zip it up, you put the litter inside and you zip it up and now it's covered.
- And basically it just goes around and you like zip it up and then you turn it on by like plugging this thing in.
- And I would zip myself up and zip myself up from behind too.
- They were black faux leather to the knee zip up the inside and then they had a tan lace going down them.
Examples
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Why don't you zip up your jacket.
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Oh, you girls remembered to zip up your tent and lock up your food, right?
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- Zip up your dress.
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Oh, let's zip up your coat.
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I'm scared to zip up my pants.
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Rule number one, you gotta keep your pants zipped up.
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Zip up your pants, Tad.
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I took the clothes out of my suitcase, put the pillows in, and zipped it up.
Fiction book (2000) -
Jasmine is kneeling as Dylan tries to zip up the back of her dress.
Fiction book (1996) -
A seamstress zips up the back of the finished, redesigned Smoochy costume.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
55
1.0
To close something by moving a sliding tab that joins two rows of teeth
4
2.3
To close clothes or bags by moving a sliding piece along two rows of teeth
Antonyms
How Closed
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Morphology
zip + up
The computing meaning 'to compress files into a .zip archive' is a metaphorical extension of 'zip' (to fasten or bring together) with 'up' giving a completive/agentive particle; a learner who knows the literal words may infer this is about packing or closing files but would not reliably derive the specific technical meaning of creating a ZIP archive. Because the connection is partly predictable from the constituents but requires domain knowledge or exposure to the technical sense, it is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Zip up comes from the fastener called a 'zipper'. The quick zip sound when you close it gives a strong image, so zip up means 'to close something with a zipper'.