zip up

verb

To close with a zip fastener.

“I'll zip up.”

Similar
do upzipzipper
Opposite
undounzipzip down
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Meanings

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

present singular third person zips up · participle present zipping up · participle past zipped up · past zipped up

  1. transitiveTo close with a zip fastener.

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

  2. idiomaticintransitivetransitiveTo close as if with a zip fastener, especially one's mouth; to stop talking.

    I'll zip up.

    2 more examples

    I'll zip up my lip.

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

    1998, Monica Sullivan, VideoHound's Independent Film Guide, page 18
  3. transitivecomputingTo convert a computer file into a smaller package.

Synonyms & antonyms

Similar
do upzip
Opposite
undounzipzip down

verbclose with a zipper

Similar
zipperzip
Opposite
unzip
Broader
fastenfixsecure
Also see
zipzipperzipper up

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Finnish sulkea, pakata
  • sulkeaTo close as if with a zip
  • pakataTo compress a computer file
  • sulkeaTo zip up literally with a zipper
French compresser
  • compresserTo compress a computer file
Japanese 圧縮する, …のファスナーを締める
  • 圧縮する (asshuku suru)To compress a computer file
  • …のファスナーを締める (… no fasunā o shimeru)To zip up literally with a zipper
Spanish subir el síper, cerrar el riqui
  • subir el síperTo zip up literally with a zipper
  • cerrar el riquiTo zip up literally with a zipper
Cite this entry
APA

zip up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zip%20up

MLA

“zip up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zip%20up. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “zip up,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zip%20up.

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