unzipped

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of unzip

adj

1. (not-comparable)Not zipped (closed with a zip fastener).

   “She threw the unzipped backpack outside, and when I ran out to get it, because I was worried about my homework blowing away, she locked and bolted the door.”

   “Cloudy crawls inside the unzipped backpack.”

2. (not-comparable)Not zipped (compressed into a single and often smaller file, especially a zip file).

   “To zip a file or directory with gzip: / […] / 2. gzip zipadeedoodah.tar / Type gzip followed by the name of the file or directory to gzip. The zipped file will replace the unzipped version and will have a new .gz extension. / ✓ Tips / […] / ▪ If you want to keep a copy of the original, unzipped file, try gzip -c filetogzip > compressed.gz.”

   “The function unzip.retrosheet unzips the file and puts the individual event files and roster files in the “unzipped” folder. The function create.csv.file(season) reads the individual team record files into R, merges the files, and writes a new single combined file in csv format in the “unzipped” folder.”

   “hawkeye: as one of my friends like to say, “How hard is your big drive?” / daisy: lol! / dragon: more importantly, Hawkeye, is it compressed? / daisy: more importantly, is it unzipped? / hawkeye: and how often do you optimize it?”

3. (not-comparable)Lacking a zip code.

   “New computer-driven postal machinery will speed up the processing of mail that is properly addressed with zip code, but may possibly delay mail that lacks the zip code. […] But woe betide a letter that lacks the zip code! For unzipped mail, the clerk punches a button that shunts the letter aside for later processing by hand.”