- (also zip fastener)(both British English)(also zipper especially in North American English)[countable]
a thing that you use to fasten clothes, bags, etc. It consists of two rows of metal or plastic teeth that you can pull together to close something or pull apart to open it. 拉链;拉锁 Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashionb2The jacket was fastened by a zip at the front. 这件夹克在前面系拉链。 The zip on my bag has stuck. 我包上的拉链卡住了。 a bag with a zip 拉链手提包
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + zip/zipper- pull
- close
- do up
- …
- be stuck
- get stuck
- stick
- …
- closure
- fastener
- with a zip
- [uncountable] (informal)
energy or speed 能量;速度 - (also zippo)[singular] (especially North American English, informal)
nothing 零;没有;毫无
Word Originmid 19th cent.: imitative.