Meanings
- not comparableWithout a zip fastener.
No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]
2006, Anthony McDonald, Adam1 more example
"The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.
1994, Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing! - figurativelyinformalnot comparableWithout complications and hindrances.
For the true, ultimate zipless A-1 fuck, it was necessary that you never get to know the man very well.
1973, Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 123 more examples
Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus […]
2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory[…] wedding planners who would check out venues, prices, caterers and all that stuff and then put it together for us, so it would be a zipless wedding.
2004, Jane Isenberg, Hot on the TrailAnd yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless […]
2007, James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and filmSynonyms: no strings attached
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWithout complications and hindrances.
Origin
From zip + -less, the figurative sense coined (as “zipless fuck”) by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (1973), see quotations.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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