Closes, perhaps

Usage examples of zips.

Most of the passengers seemed to be old women in heavy overcoats, with knitted hats and huge felt boots with zips up the front.

Taken in her particulars, and Zipser couldn’t think of any other way of taking her, the bedder was quite remarkably without attractions.

When he finally accepted that his ears were not betraying him and that Zipser was in fact confessing to being attracted by his bedder, he had muttered something to the effect that the Chaplain would expect him for tea that afternoon and that, failing that, a good psychiatrist might help.

Zipser could think of nothing worse than being sent down from Porterhouse for “the attempted rape of a bedder”.

He seemed to find the fact that the boy was having an affair with his bedder proof that Zipser was insane.

The police seemed to think Zipser was in the grip of an irrational impulse.

Zipser stepped to one side and found himself looking into the face of Mr Turton, his supervisor.