Meanings
- not comparableTightly sealed in, or as if in, a Ziploc bag.
First, it’s ineffective, because the country will never be ziplocked as tightly as he wants it to be.
2008 February 21, Lawrence Downes, “Broken Borders and Dover Sole: My Lunch With Lou Dobbs”, in New York Times
Origin
From zip + locked, based on the brand name Ziploc.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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