Zip

Zip or ZIP most commonly refers to:

• Zipper or zip, a device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric together
• ZIP code, the USPS Zone Improvement Plan used in postal addresses in the USA
• Zip drive, a removable data storage format
• ZIP (file format), a popular data compression and archival format
• zip, a GNU/Linux terminal program from Info-ZIP
• Zip Industries makers of instant hot water dispensers, made in Australia, used worldwide.
• Zip (net-staff) to outsource it; turn it over to be completed; be relieved of it as your virtual assistant will handle it.

Zip, Zips or ZIP may also refer to:

In places:

• Žíp, a village in Slovakia
• Zip City, Alabama, USA

In arts and media:

• Zip, the Dodger, a 1914 film
• Zip (TUGS), a character in the children's television series TUGS
• Mr. ZIP, a promotional character for ZIP codes
• Zip the Pinhead or William Johnson (1842? - 1926), circus freak show performer
• Zip or Tom Prichard (born 1959), professional wrestler
• Zip, the vertical line in works by artist Barnett Newman

In other uses:

• Zips, slang term for Sicilian or Italian immigrants to USA
• Akron Zips, the University of Akron athletic team
• Zip (airline), a defunct Canadian discount airline
• Zip (game), children's or party game
• Zip.ca, a Canadian online DVD rental service
• Zig-zag in-line package, a type of electronic packaging
• Zone Information Protocol, implementation of an OSI model layer
• zip, another name for the convolution operation in formal language theory

People with the name

• Bohdan Zip (born 1929), Canadian Politician
• Zip Hanna (1916–2001), American footballer
• Zip Zabel (1891–1970), American baseball player

See also

• ZIP Beep, online humour magazine published 1984-89
• ZIP Skład, Polish hip-hop collective
• Zip and bong, children's or party game
• Zip bomb, a malicious computer file
• Zip card, an electronic ticket for use on London Transport
• Zip-cord, cable for optical communications
• Zip cube, firelighters
• Zip Feed Tower, structure in South Dakota, USA, demolished 2005
• Zip fuel, also called High Energy Fuel
• Zip gun, a makeshift firearm
• Zip-line, a pulley and cable method of descending an incline
• Zip tie, a cable fastener
• Zip tone, in telephony
• Zip's Drive In, American fast-food chain founded 1953 by Robert "Zip" Zuber
• Zipp (disambiguation)
• Zipper (disambiguation)
• Zippy (disambiguation)
• ZIPI