Zip

Look up zip, zips, ZIP, or ZIPS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Zip, Zips or ZIP may refer to:

• Zip fastener, a device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric together
• ZIP code, the USPS Zone Improvement Plan used in postal addresses in the United States

Computing

• ZIP (file format), a data compression and archival format
• zip, a command-line program from Info-ZIP
• Zip drive, a removable data storage format by Iomega
• Zone Information Protocol, implementation of an OSI model layer
• Convolution (computer science), an operation in formal language theory

Arts and entertainment

• Mr. ZIP, a promotional character for ZIP codes
• Zip the Pinhead or William Johnson (1842? - 1926), circus freak show performer
• Tom Prichard (born 1959), professional wrestler
• Zip, a recurring character in the Tomb Raider video game series
• Zip (TUGS), a character in the children's television series TUGS *Zip (game), a children's or party game
• Zip, in the children's or party card game Zip and bong
• Zip, the vertical line in works by artist Barnett Newman
• Zip (band), a band formed by Pete Shelley
• ZIP Magazine, a weekly men's magazine published in the United Kingdom
• Zip Comics, an American anthology comic book series published from 1940 to 1944

In business

• Zip Industries, an Australian manufacturer of hot water dispensers
• Zip (airline), a defunct Canadian discount airline
• Zip.ca, a Canadian online DVD rental service
• Zip FM, a commercial radio station broadcasting from Vilnius, Lithuania
• Zip Technologies, involved in Apple II accelerators
• Zip, a model of scooter produced by Piaggio

People

• Bohdan Zip (born 1929), Canadian former politician
• John Edgar Zip Collins (1892–1983), American Major League Baseball player
• John Connolly (FBI) (born 1940), former FBI agent convicted of second-degree murder and other crimes
• Elzaphan McConnell Zip Hanna (1916–2001), American National Football League player
• George Washington Zip Zabel (1891–1970), American Major League Baseball player

Places

• Žíp, a village in Slovakia
• Zip City, Alabama, U.S., an unincorporated community

Other uses

• Zero, in slang
• Zips, a derogatory slang term for Italian-American or Sicilian-American mobsters
• Akron Zips, the University of Akron athletic teams
• Zig-zag in-line package, a type of electronic packaging
• Zip Feed Tower, a grain elevator and feed mill in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; demolished in 2005

See also

• Zip, the Dodger, a 1914 film starring Fatty Arbuckle
• "Zip, Zip, Zip", an episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother
• Spiš, a region of Slovakia and Poland spelled Zips in German
• Zip card, an electronic ticket for use on London Transport
• Zip cube, firelighters
• Zip fuel, also called High Energy Fuel
• Zip gun (disambiguation)
• Zip tie, a cable fastener
• Zip tone, in telephony
• Zipp (disambiguation)
• Zipper (disambiguation)
• Zippy (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Zip"
• All pages beginning with "Zip"

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