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Lively, informally
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zippy
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Zippy is the female mascot of the University of Akron athletics team. Zippy is a kangaroo , and was chosen by a committee in 1953. The school's nickname, "Zips", is a shortening of "Zippers", a pair of rubber overshoes and a brand name of the BF Goodrich ...
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adj. quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: brisk , lively , merry , rattling , snappy , spanking ] marked by lively action; "a bouncing ...
Wiktionary
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a. lively, quick and energetic
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1904, from zip (n.) "energy, force" (1900, from zip (v.1)) + -y (2).
Usage examples of zippy.
I had a little bit of an idea of where 1400 River Road was, but I just checked it with Zippy to make sure.
I like liars because they make life more zippy, but Floon had already rubbed me so much the wrong way that he could have passed for a piece of sandpaper.
But she quickly discovered that some part of her had missed the feel of a gear stick in her hand, the sense of controlling the vehicle as if it were a high-spirited horse, the surge of power as she felt the zippy car respond.
Such is the Zen bliss of Zippy the Pinhead, watching his laundry tumble in the washing machine.
Denise might have had a few zippy gadgets, but her real advantage over us was how willing people were to sign up to her bogus resistance movement.
Max hadn't anything zippy to brag about except the short-lived Plum Crunchies ditty.
The skyport’s on a plateau above the town, its traffic everything from buzzing microlites and zippy little skiffs through new lifting-body aerodynes to the great clunky contraptions of human-built starships like the one he’s just stepped off.
I was sure I had seen some flour-smeared cookie cutters in a nasty zippy bag at the back of a cupboard somewhere.
Apart from anything else, the zippier Northern cadences meant the radio stations could pack in three or four commercials in the time it would take the average Southerner to clear his throat.