ziplesshttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zipless_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezipless, adj.
Revised 2021

ziplessadjective

  1. 1.
    1922–
    colloquial (originally U.S.). Lacking energy, vigour, or liveliness. Cf. zip n.1 B.1b.
    1. 1922
      It looks as though there is going to be a lot of that zipless campaigning in the sweet bye and bye.
      Mining Congr. Journal May 716/2
    2. 1981
      The zipless droning began to agitate and other ALP members pointed out that Government members did not look exactly galvanised and inspired by their leader's words.
      Canberra Times 13 May 18/5
    3. 2004
      Matthew Broderick repeats his Leo Bloom shtick..in the Roundabout's zipless revival of a silly 1983 comedy by Larry Shue.
      Time Out New York 30 December 138/1
    1. 2.a.
      1942–
      Of an item of clothing, bag, etc.: having no zip fastener; lacking a zip or zips.
      1. 1942
        We get war fashions, born of emergencies—straight, trim skirts, cotton shirts and blouses, malleable, zipless handbags.
        Country Life 17 April 774/3
      2. 1987
        Most of them were wearing the standard uniform of the Outback male..: ‘stubbies’..are green, tight-fitting, zipless shorts.
        B. Chatwin, Songlines (1988) viii. 34
      3. 2020
        These dresses need to have holiday spirit... Relaxed, wrappy, zipless and lining free is the way to go.
        Daily Mail (Nexis) 15 June
    2. 2.b.
      1973–
      Designating a brief, uncomplicated, and passionate sexual encounter.
      Originally and chiefly in zipless fuck (coarse slang), a phrase coined by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (see quot. 1973).
      1. 1973
        My response..was..to evolve my fantasy of the Zipless Fuck... Zipless because when you came together zippers fell away like petals.
        E. Jong, Fear of Flying i. 11
      2. 1978
        Girls who feared flying tended to race blindly through zipless fucks.
        G. Vidal, Kalki iii. 79
      3. 1984
        This small hand I'm shaking..launched a thousand zipless erotic encounters for her heroine.
        Times 2 November 11/1
      4. 2001
        You can't go on the rebound with your ex-girlfriend. It defeats the objects of the exercise. You need a good old zipless fuck.
        F. North, Fen iii. 22

zipless, adj. was revised in March 2021.

zipless, adj. was last modified in July 2023.