Usually means: Fastening device using interlocking teeth.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. zipper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. zipper: Merriam-Webster
  3. zipper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. zipper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. zipper: Collins English Dictionary
  6. zipper: Vocabulary.com
  7. Zipper, zipper: Wordnik
  8. zipper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. zipper: Wiktionary
  10. zipper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. zipper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. zipper: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. zipper: Dictionary.com
  14. zipper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. zipper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Zipper, Zipper (BDSM), Zipper (data structure), Zipper (disambiguation), Zipper (film), Zipper (ride), Zipper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. zipper: Rhymezone
  18. zipper: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. zipper: FreeDictionary.org
  20. zipper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. zipper: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Disney Comics Characters (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. zipper: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. zipper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. zipper, zipper, zipper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Zipper, zipper: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See zippered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly US, Australia) A zip fastener.
noun:  A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
noun:  (biochemistry) A leucine zipper.
noun:  (slang) A scar on a person's body.
noun:  (US, military, slang, dated) An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
noun:  (BDSM) A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
noun:  (programming) A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
verb:  to close a zipper.
verb:  to put a zipper on an article.

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