zip something/someone up

zip | American Dictionary

zip
verb
us/zɪp/-pp-

zipverb (FASTEN)

[ T ]
to fasten a bag, clothing, etc. with a zipper:
[ T ]I’ve got so much stuff in this bag, I can’t zip it shut.
[ M ]You have to help the kids zip their coats up.

zipverb (MOVE FAST)

[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]
to travel very fast:
Messengers on bicycles zipped fearlessly through the capital’s traffic.
zip
noun[ U ]
 infmlus/zɪp/

zipnoun[U] (MOVE FAST)

something that creates a feeling of energy or excitement:
Add pepper to give a little zip to the sauce.

zip | Business English

zip
verb[ T ]
 ITuk /zɪp/us-pp-
to reduce the size of a computer file so that it uses less space, and can be more easily sent or stored:
If you zip the file, it makes it easier to send.

Examples of zip

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We use long zip to define levelorder traversal of binary trees.
The sample included 250 households in each community, based on postal zip codes.
Participants were recruited from a major urban community through newspaper announcements and flyers to preschools and daycare providers in demographically diverse zip codes.
The expected actual loss of patients is most commonly assessed using the concept of 'contestable zip codes'.
Each zip code received a score ranging from 1.0 (low need) to 5.0 (high need).
What is the zip code where you work?
A calibration has to be made of all the rates relative to the rate of the smallest change (zipping up of a base pair).
In particular, zipped monads are closed under cartesian submonads.
Shape amounts to length and two lists of the same length are zipped in the usual way.
The cage was entered via a vertical zip.
The skeleton zip transforms a pair of vectors into a vector of pairs.
We now turn toward the definition of collection monads with zip maps.
T his dress zips up, that one buttons.
Thus, a rhyming couplet like lip/rip is considerably less frequent than lip/zip or lip/tip.
What is the zip code where you live?
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