zipper, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

zipper n.

[? such a woman is full of zip n.² (1) or ? the SE zipper of the men’s trousers]

a promiscuous woman.

1920		Ade Hand-made Fables 284: [She] would give the Gimlet Eye to each Zipper and then rush back to her Apartment to slip on something a little more Ultra.
1939		J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 236: He’s promised some big chested zipper from 10th Avenue he’s gonna get her into pictures.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

zipper club (n.) [the lowering of the zipper of one’s fly]

1. (US gay) anywhere that plays host to repeated oral sex, e.g. a lavatory or bath-house.

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 219: zipper club after hours establishment.
1988		H. Max Gay (S)language.

2. one who has a post-operative scar.

2017

Guardian 13 July 🌐 I am now a member of the zipper club [...] the club’s name for those of us who have a scar right down the middle of our chest [...] from a heart by-pass operation.

zipperfish (n.)

1. (also zipper trout) the penis.

1991		S, Phillips ‘Venusian Vixens on Wheels’ in Horney Biker Sluts #2 14: ‘Now put that zipper trout away and get to work’.
1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: zipperfish n. Penis; trouser trout; underpant eel, etc.
2008		billyray77 in mcstories.com 14 Dec. 🌐 Now he had a hot redheaded babe stroking his zipper trout.
2017		S. Fallon Confusion of Languages 106: ‘So you didn’t actually see him [...] Buffing the banan? Fishing with his zipper trout?’.

2. the female genitals.

1997–2000

College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Zipperfish (noun) A woman’s genital area; pussy.

zipperhead (n.) (also ziphead, zipperlid)

1. (US) a Vietnamese, any Asian person.

1967		E. Shepard Doom Pussy 71: Get those zipperheads off the runway.
1979		(con. c.1970) G. Hasford Short Timers (1985) 79: Don’t these zipperheads know that tanks got the right-of-way?
1985		(con. 1968) D.A. Dye Citadel (1989) 21: Fucking Zipperheads will be visiting their ancestors.
1987		(con. 1967) Bunch & Cole Reckoning for Kings (1989) 318: Bet me, ziphead.
1990		Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 9: zipperlid – an Oriental.

2. a complete fool; also as adj. [i.e. one whose head has been ‘unzipped’ and the breain removed].

1988		Eble Campus Sl. Oct. 11: zipperhead – person who parts his hair down the middle of his head, an out-of-style haircut. Also butthead, smack-dab.
1990		(con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 188: Here’s a little money from home for yo’ zipper-head mama, Mr Charles.
2000		P. Beatty Tuff 61: You goddam zipperhead, don’t you watch the news? Communism is dead.

zipper pockets (n.)

(US) a mean, grasping person.

1979

E. Torres After Hours 170: I ain’t ever been no zipper pockets.

zipper sex (n.) (also zipper caper, ...dinner)

(US gay) quick, spontaneous fellatio without even dropping one’s trousers, just unzipping and pulling out the penis.

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 219: zipper dinner hurried fellation [...] zipper sex cocksucking without bothering to lower the pants.
1981		D. Jenkins Baja Oklahoma 109: [A] pompadour would come into a men’s room [...] where Evan happened to be. [. . . .]. Suddenly, Evan would sink to his knees and do a zipper caper on the body-builder.
1988		H. Max Gay (S)language.

In phrases

quick on the zipper

(Aus.) sexually eager.

1960

A. Buzo Front Room Boys Scene xii: Watch him, Pammy. He’s pretty quick on the zipper.

use the zipper (v.)

see zip one’s lip v.