1[countableC]British EnglishBrEDC two lines of small metal or plastic pieces that slide together to fasten a piece of clothing 拉链SYN American English zipper
2[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] informalFAST/QUICK to go somewhere or do something very quickly 疾行前往;快速做事SYN whizz, zoom
zip through/past/along etc
We zipped through customs in no time.
我们很快通过了海关。
3zip it/zip your lipAmerican EnglishAmE spoken informalQUIET used to tell someone not to say anything about something, or to tell them to be quiet 闭上嘴
You’d better zip your lip or you’ll be in trouble!
你最好闭上嘴巴,不然会有麻烦的!
4zip upphrasal verbphr vFASTEN/DO UPto fasten something using a zip, or to become fastened using a zip 把…的拉链拉上;被拉上拉链OPP unzip
The dress zipped up at the front.
这件连衣裙的拉链是在前面的。
zip something ↔ up
He was zipping up a small brown suitcase.
他正在把一只棕色小手提箱的拉链拉上。
zip somebody up
Could you zip me up (=fasten my dress) please? I can’t reach.
帮我把拉链拉上好吗?我够不着。
Examples from the Corpus
zip up• Can you zip my dress for me?• My sleepingbag was fully zipped up.• She took some money out of her purse and quickly zipped it up again.• Rogerzipped up the battered black case he carried his guitar in.• I can't zip up these jeans - they're too tight.
zip through/past/along etc• The spy-fly zipped along in her wake, down narrower, abandoned, grimalleys.• He zipped past one man, then two.• Just the right price to give added zip through the water.• The two joggers seemed surprised when a motorized wheelchairzipped past them on the downtown Denver sidewalk.• We zip through town, heading into the agricultural regionsnorth and south of San Quintin.