zip up

See also: zip-up

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (Australia):

  (file)

Verb

zip up (third-person singular simple present zips up, present participle zipping up, simple past and past participle zipped up)

1. (transitive) To close with a zip fastener.

   Always check if you've zipped up your fly before you go out.

2. (idiomatic, transitive or intransitive) To close as if with a zip fastener, especially one's mouth; to stop talking.

   I'll zip up my lip.

   I'll zip up.

   • 1998, Monica Sullivan, VideoHound's Independent Film Guide, page 18:

     Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) is terminally incapable of zipping it up.

3. (computing, software, transitive) To convert a computer file into a smaller package.

Synonyms

• do up
• zip

Antonyms

• undo
• unzip
• zip down

Derived terms

• zip up one's lip

Related terms

• zip-up

Translations

To zip up literally with a zipper

• Finnish: sulkea (fi)
• Japanese: …のファスナーを締める (… no fasunā o shimeru)
• Spanish: subir el síper, cerrar el riqui

To close as if with a zip

• Finnish: sulkea (fi)

To compress a computer file

• Finnish: pakata (fi)
• French: compresser (fr)
• Japanese: 圧縮する (asshuku suru)