Crossword clues for zips
zips
- Zooms along
- Zooms (by)
- University of Akron athletes
- Toothed fasteners
- Speeds (by)
- Prepares to exit the stall, say
- Postal codes, for short
- Moves quick
- Moves fast
- Letters' numbers
- Goes very fast
- Goes speedily
- Gets there fast
- Fastens, as pants
- Fastens a jacket, perhaps
- Drives quickly (over)
- Compresses, in a way
- Compresses, as files
- Code and gun
- Closes, perhaps
- Closes, as a winter coat
- Closes, as a pencil pouch
- Closes (up), like a sleeping bag
- Beverly Hills' 90210 et al
- Address enders, briefly
- 10001, 10002, etc., informally
- Rushes (along)
- Compresses, in computerese
- Postal aids, for short
- Speeds (along)
- Flies (along)
- 99+ things in Alaska?
- Scoots
- Parts of addresses
- Fastens or hastens
- Fastens, in a way
- Moves quickly
- Goose eggs
- Shutters' speeds
- Goes quickly
- Makes haste
- Moves swiftly
- Breezes (through)
- Floors it
- Closes, in a way
- Fastening devices
- Closes a jacket, with "up"
- Numbers on letters
- Moves it
- Compresses, as a file
- Closes, as a fly
- Letter codes
Wiktionary
n. (plural of zip English)
Wikipedia
Zips (also Siggies or Geeps) is a slang term often used as a derogatory slur by Italian American and Sicilian American mobsters in reference to newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi. The name is said to have originated from mobsters' inability to understand the faster-speaking Sicilian dialects, which appeared to "zip" by. Other theories include pejorative uses such as Sicilians' preference for silent, homemade zip guns. According to still another theory, the term is a contraction of the Sicilian slang term for "hicks" or "primitives." The older Sicilian mafiosi of pre-Prohibition known as " Mustache Petes" (who eventually were deposed by American-born mobsters during the Castellammarese War) were also referred to as zips.
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.