zip-coded, adj.

zip-coded
http://www.oed.com/dictionary/zip-coded_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_use
First published 2021

# zip-codedadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zip-coded mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective zip-coded. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is used in U.S. English.

### Where does the adjective zip-coded come from?

Earliest known use

1960s

The earliest known use of the adjective zip-coded is in the 1960s.

OED's earliest evidence for zip-coded is from 1963, in the Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Michigan).

### Nearby entries

1. Zionwards, adv. 1674–
2. zip, n.² & adj. 1900–
3. zip, n.³ 1962–
4. zip, n.⁴ 1968–
5. zip, v.¹ 1852–
6. zip, v.² 1964–
7. zip, int. & n.¹ 1678–
8. zip-a-dee-doo-dah, int. & adj. 1945–
9. zip code, n. 1962–
10. zip-code, v. 1962–
11. zip-coded, adj.1963–
12. zip-coding, n. 1964–
13. zip coon, n. 1833–
14. zip cuff, n. 1995–
15. zip cuff, v. 1996–
16. Zipf, n. 1936–
17. zip fastener, n. 1925–
18. zip fastening, n. & adj. 1925–
19. zip gun, n. 1914–
20. Ziph, n. 1834–
21. ziphian, n. & adj. 1896

## Meaning & use

U.S.

1. 1963–
   Having or provided with a zip code; designated or distinguished by a zip code.
   Stressed as ˈzip-coded.
   1. 1963

      > The plan is principally aimed at encouraging big business firms to use the five-digit ZIP-coded addresses on the billions of pieces of mail they send out annually.

      Ironwood (Michigan) Daily Globe 1 May ii. 11/3
   2. 2018

      > Some of the explanatory variables in the auxiliary regression include..median house value, average age of the population for each ZIP-Coded area.

      Journal Real Estate Literature vol. 26 200
   U.S. English

Originally published as part of the entry for zip code, n.

zip-coded, adj. was first published in 2021.