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zipper

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Noun

  1. A zip fastener.
  2. A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
  3. A leucine zipper.
  4. A scar on a person's body.
  5. An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
  6. A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
  7. A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
  8. A zipline.

Verb

  1. to close a zipper.
  2. to put a zipper on an article.
  3. to act in a manner similar to a zipper: to act in a manner similar to a zipper closing
  4. to act in a manner similar to a zipper closing: to interleave
  5. to interleave: to intersperse
  6. to act in a manner similar to a zipper: to unzipper

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