zipless
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 7
Definition of zipless
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Without a zip fastener.
“"The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.”
“No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]”
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adj
-
(not-comparable)Without a zip fastener.
“"The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.”
“No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]”
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(figuratively, informal, not-comparable)Without complications and hindrances.
“For the true, ultimate zipless A-1 fuck, it was necessary that you never get to know the man very well.”
“Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus […]”
“[…] wedding planners who would check out venues, prices, caterers and all that stuff and then put it together for us, so it would be a zipless wedding.”
“And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From zip + -less, the figurative sense coined (as “zipless fuck”) by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (1973), see quotations.
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