zippedhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zipped_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezipped, adj.
Revised 2021

zippedadjective

  1. 1.
    1931–
    Of a garment, bag, or other item: fastened by means of a zip; having a zip.
    1. 1931
      Both leather and tweed jackets are now being made with an inverted zipped pleat between the shoulder blades.
      Daily Mail 2 September 15/3
    2. 1946
      She picked up her mother's zipped travelling bag.
      ‘S. Russell’, To Bed with Grand Music i. 13
    3. 1972
      Down suit and fully zipped windproofs.
      D. Haston, In High Places xi. 117
    4. 2006
      There's also a zipped pocket that's perfect for essentials such as scissors, stitch markers and cable needles.
      Simply Knitting June 11/1
  2. 2.
    1942–
    figurative. Of a person's mouth or lips: tightly closed (indicating unwillingness to talk or divulge information, or suppressed emotion or determined reticence). Chiefly in zipped lip.
    Recorded earliest in the compound best-zipped.
    1. 1942
      If Uncle Sam really values the silence of people who know things, then he ought to give some sort of decoration to Lee Roy Phillips for one of the best-zipped lips in the service.
      Ada (Oklahoma) Evening News 8 February 7/1
    2. 1943
      Apparently Canadians were wiser in the matter of keeping a ‘zipped lip’.
      J. Goodell, They sent me to Iceland i. 17
    3. 1966
      Blobb inquired around about the Trystero organization, running into zipped mouths nearly every way he turned.
      T. Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49 vi. 158
    4. 2012
      He ruthlessly destroyed countless lives. And got away with it because of a culture of zipped lips and fear.
      Belfast Telegraph (Nexis) 19 October
  3. 3.
    1989–
    Computing. Also ZIPped. Of a file: compressed through having been added to a zip archive file (see zip n.1 B.3).
    1. 1989
      I will send a uuencoded [sic]/zipped file to anyone who wants it until April 24.
      comp.sys.ibm.pc 17 April (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 10 Oct. 2011)
    2. 1994
      A ZIPped version of the three-part file series on traveling to Europe, covering planning, packing, etiquette, food, payments and more.
      CompuServe Magazine March 57/2
    3. 2001
      Zipped files can be decompressed on just about any system as long as the reader has an unzip utility.
      W. R. Stanek et al., Microsoft Frontpage 2002 Unleashed xii. 279
    4. 2011
      Zipped files are quicker to download and occupy less hard disk space.
      Computeractive (Nexis) 1 September

Originally published as part of the entry for zip, v.¹

zipped, adj. was revised in March 2021.

zipped, adj. was last modified in December 2024.