From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: {nothing}, {nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}]
2: a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab [syn: {slide fastener}, {zipper}, {zip-fastener}]
verb
1: close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold" [syn: {zip up}, {zipper}] [ant: {unzip}]
2: move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed" [syn: {travel rapidly}, {speed}, {hurry}] [also: {zipping}, {zipped}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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