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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
zip .
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Examples
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It hovered for just a moment, and then zipped from the dirt, to the silo on the horizon and then straight up into the night sky.
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But with 4 GB of RAM, Windows 7 Professional certain zipped along nicely and the performance was more than adequate for the sort of tasks that anyone is likely to ask of a system of this class.
Hands on With the ThinkPad Edge « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010
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You can dowload the entire course in zipped format here.
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The coin zipped forward and thocked against a tree.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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The little infant, just 3 pounds 4 ounces, sucked in his first few breaths and let out a fledgling war cry that echoed in the cheers of NICU doctors and nurses when word zipped there by walkie-talkie that Baby A was up and running.
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Dozens more coins zipped through the window, scattering it with holes.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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Aucoin zipped home a high wrist shot to win that game and wound up scoring on his first five attempts -- all game-deciding goals.
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Any program or file (like a song or picture) can be "zipped," and doing so does basically two things:
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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: All right, let's throw that poll number up again because we kind of zipped through it pretty quickly.
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Two bullets instantly "zipped" over his head and dropped flat as pancakes from the rock overhead.
Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land Charles King 1888
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