zip adj.
1. zero, none.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Long Walk in Bachman Books (1995) 248: Graveyard rats. They’d gnaw through one of them pine boxes in zip flat. | |
| ‘Beige Is Fine’ in Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos (1994) 121: The ballplayer’s color and the filmmaker’s physique have had zip impact on advertising’s projections of black beauty. |
2. (US campus) unpleasant, bad, generally negative.
| Sl. U. 211: I had a totally zip time at the party. |
In phrases
(US) of a plan, a business, to collapse.
| Day By Day in New York 16 Apr. [synd. col.] Then along came a lot of big moving pictrure theaters [...] and zip went a lot of business. |