Zipper
noun
A device consisting of two flexible strips with interlocking metal or plastic teeth and a sliding mechanism, used to fasten clothing, bags, and other items.
She pulled up the zipper of her jacket as it got colder.
Often appears as...
- zipper closure
- zipper broke
verb
Fasten or provide (something) with a zipper.
Her dress is zippered at the back.
Often appears as...
- zipper closed
- zipper shut
noun
A device consisting of two flexible strips with interlocking metal or plastic teeth and a sliding mechanism, used to fasten clothing, bags, and other items.
She pulled up the zipper of her jacket as it got colder.
Often appears as...
- zipper closure
- zipper broke
verb
Fasten or provide (something) with a zipper.
Her dress is zippered at the back.
Often appears as...
- zipper closed
- zipper shut
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Pro Tip 1/3Clothing Commonly
Zipper is most commonly used in clothing items like jackets, pants, and dresses.
Could you help me with the zipper on my dress?
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Use
Besides clothing, zippers can also be found in luggage or furniture like couch covers.
The zipper on this suitcase is really sturdy.
Pro Tip 3/3Broken Zipper Fix
When a zipper 'broke,' it usually means it's stuck or won't close. Sometimes it can be fixed.
I can't wear these jeans until I fix the broken zipper.
Pro Tip 1/3Clothing Commonly
Zipper is most commonly used in clothing items like jackets, pants, and dresses.
Could you help me with the zipper on my dress?
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Use
Besides clothing, zippers can also be found in luggage or furniture like couch covers.
The zipper on this suitcase is really sturdy.
Pro Tip 3/3Broken Zipper Fix
When a zipper 'broke,' it usually means it's stuck or won't close. Sometimes it can be fixed.
I can't wear these jeans until I fix the broken zipper.
Pro Tip 1/3Clothing Commonly
Zipper is most commonly used in clothing items like jackets, pants, and dresses.
Could you help me with the zipper on my dress?
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Use
Besides clothing, zippers can also be found in luggage or furniture like couch covers.
The zipper on this suitcase is really sturdy.
Pro Tip 3/3Broken Zipper Fix
When a zipper 'broke,' it usually means it's stuck or won't close. Sometimes it can be fixed.
I can't wear these jeans until I fix the broken zipper.
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3 creative ways to fix...
it's very strong but very easily manipulated. It's modular in its nature. Clothing design as it stands today is very rarely modular. Take this motorcycle jacket as an example. It's a pretty standard jacket with its buttons, zippers and trim. But in order for us to efficiently recycle a jacket like this, we need to be able to easily remove these items
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Everything around you...
so they can use it just like they use a button or a zipper. And what they're going to make with them is up to them. We don't want to dictate the use cases. We would like to let people who make those things -- artists and designers, brands and craftsmen -- to imagine and create this new world
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The paradox of choice PIPE...
And the shopkeeper said, "Do you want slim fit, easy fit, relaxed fit? You want button fly or zipper fly? You want stonewashed or acid-washed? Do you want them distressed? Do you want boot cut, tapered?" Blah, blah, blah on and on he went. My jaw dropped. And after I recovered, I said,
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How adaptive clothing...
But many times, because he couldn't manage the button and zipper, I would have to take him to the men's room, which was incredibly embarrassing for him and the other men that were in there. But them -- I said, "Oh, please. There's nothing I haven't seen before."
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Heroes don’t always wear...
I'm not bring on that sixth grade I finally get to school at I don't know I don't know if the Sun catches a glimpse of one of my many zippers or what but all of a sudden my pants become the focal point of the entire classroom haha
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Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
let me see Bungay can cut this zippers it's just ahead of us about eleven o'clock I'm spoiled by choice look at that and how things look at night in infrared and zebras are looking at elephants but it gets dark visibility
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What Would Your Life Be...
your time three years swinging food five days working buttons and zippers four minutes wondering what your life would be like if you reshuffle to the order of events in this part of the afterlife you
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Zahra' Langhi: Why...
the right to vote and run, and most importantly to stipulate on political parties the alternation of male and female candidates vertically and horizontally in their lists, creating the zipper list.
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Why Libya's revolution...
most importantly to stipulate on political parties the alternation of male and female candidates vertically and horizontally in their lists creating the zipper list eventually our
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Yuko Munakata: The...
And like this. People have no idea how bicycles work. Or zippers or rainbows, or even topics they argue passionately about. When you push people to explain how these things work,
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3 creative ways to fix...
it's very strong but very easily manipulated. It's modular in its nature. Clothing design as it stands today is very rarely modular. Take this motorcycle jacket as an example. It's a pretty standard jacket with its buttons, zippers and trim. But in order for us to efficiently recycle a jacket like this, we need to be able to easily remove these items
Video examples
Everything around you...
so they can use it just like they use a button or a zipper. And what they're going to make with them is up to them. We don't want to dictate the use cases. We would like to let people who make those things -- artists and designers, brands and craftsmen -- to imagine and create this new world
Video examples
The paradox of choice PIPE...
And the shopkeeper said, "Do you want slim fit, easy fit, relaxed fit? You want button fly or zipper fly? You want stonewashed or acid-washed? Do you want them distressed? Do you want boot cut, tapered?" Blah, blah, blah on and on he went. My jaw dropped. And after I recovered, I said,
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How adaptive clothing...
But many times, because he couldn't manage the button and zipper, I would have to take him to the men's room, which was incredibly embarrassing for him and the other men that were in there. But them -- I said, "Oh, please. There's nothing I haven't seen before."
Video examples
Heroes don’t always wear...
I'm not bring on that sixth grade I finally get to school at I don't know I don't know if the Sun catches a glimpse of one of my many zippers or what but all of a sudden my pants become the focal point of the entire classroom haha
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Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
let me see Bungay can cut this zippers it's just ahead of us about eleven o'clock I'm spoiled by choice look at that and how things look at night in infrared and zebras are looking at elephants but it gets dark visibility
Video examples
What Would Your Life Be...
your time three years swinging food five days working buttons and zippers four minutes wondering what your life would be like if you reshuffle to the order of events in this part of the afterlife you
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Zahra' Langhi: Why...
the right to vote and run, and most importantly to stipulate on political parties the alternation of male and female candidates vertically and horizontally in their lists, creating the zipper list.
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Why Libya's revolution...
most importantly to stipulate on political parties the alternation of male and female candidates vertically and horizontally in their lists creating the zipper list eventually our
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Yuko Munakata: The...
And like this. People have no idea how bicycles work. Or zippers or rainbows, or even topics they argue passionately about. When you push people to explain how these things work,
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Coco Rocha
Canadian Model
I was once dressed as a mermaid for a Jean Paul Gaultier show. My legs were bound into a fish tail, so I had to come down the runway on crutches. Halfway down, I was supposed to unzip the fish tail to reveal my legs, but the zipper broke, so I ended up stabbing my fake nail through the fabric of the zipper and ripping my way out.
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Paul Stanley
American Musician
The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.
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Mandy Harvey
American Musician
I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper as your fly is being pulled up so that you know it actually is up. The sound of the door as it closes, to know that it's really shut.
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Steve Wynn
American Businessman
I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so they had to open me up five times in four months... It was in the bottom of my back, the same incision. They should have put a zipper on it.
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Simon Armitage
British Poet
I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.
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Theophilus London
Trinidadian Musician
I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.
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Emo Philips
American Comedian
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
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Eric Stoltz
American Actor
I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.
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George Burns
American Comedian
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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Perfume Genius
American Musician
Good catsuits should have multiple zippers; they'll have a top and a bottom one.
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Coco Rocha
Canadian Model
I was once dressed as a mermaid for a Jean Paul Gaultier show. My legs were bound into a fish tail, so I had to come down the runway on crutches. Halfway down, I was supposed to unzip the fish tail to reveal my legs, but the zipper broke, so I ended up stabbing my fake nail through the fabric of the zipper and ripping my way out.
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Paul Stanley
American Musician
The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.
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Mandy Harvey
American Musician
I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper as your fly is being pulled up so that you know it actually is up. The sound of the door as it closes, to know that it's really shut.
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Steve Wynn
American Businessman
I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so they had to open me up five times in four months... It was in the bottom of my back, the same incision. They should have put a zipper on it.
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Simon Armitage
British Poet
I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.
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Theophilus London
Trinidadian Musician
I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.
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Emo Philips
American Comedian
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
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Eric Stoltz
American Actor
I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.
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George Burns
American Comedian
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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Perfume Genius
American Musician
Good catsuits should have multiple zippers; they'll have a top and a bottom one.
Example 1 of 10
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