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

  1. (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

  1. (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 […]”
  2. (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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