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Zip, Zips or ZIP may refer to:
- Zipper or zip, a device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric together
- ZIP code, the USPS Zone Improvement Plan used in postal addresses in the United States
Computing
- zip (file format), a data compression and archival file format
- zip, a command-line program from Info-ZIP
- Zip drive, a removable data storage format by Iomega
- Zone Information Protocol, implementation of an OSI model layer
- Convolution (computer science), also called "zip", an operation which converts a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples
Arts and entertainment
- Zip, a recurring character in the Tomb Raider video game series
- Zip (TUGS), a character in the children's television series TUGS
- Zip (game), a children's or party game
- Zip, in the children's or party card game Zip and bong
- Zip, the vertical line in works by artist Barnett Newman
- Zip (band), a band formed by Pete Shelley
- ZIP Magazine, a weekly men's magazine published in the United Kingdom
- Zip Comics, an American anthology comic book series published from 1940 to 1944
In business
- Mr. ZIP, a promotional character for ZIP codes
- Zip Industries, an Australian manufacturer of hot water dispensers
- Zip (airline), a defunct Canadian discount airline
- Zip.ca, a Canadian online DVD rental service
- Zip FM, a commercial radio station broadcasting from Vilnius, Lithuania
- Zip Technologies, involved in Apple II accelerators
- Piaggio Zip, a model of scooter produced by Piaggio
People
- Bohdan Zip (born 1929), Canadian former politician
- John Edgar Zip Collins (1892–1983), American Major League Baseball player
- Tom Prichard (born 1959), professional wrestler
- John Connolly (FBI) (born 1940), former FBI agent convicted of second-degree murder and other crimes
- Elzaphan McConnell, Zip Hanna (1916–2001), American National Football League player
- George Washington, Zip Zabel (1891–1970), American Major League Baseball player
- Zip the Pinhead, born William Johnson (1842? - 1926), circus freak show performer
Places
- Žíp, a village in Slovakia
- Zip City, Alabama, U.S., an unincorporated community
Other uses
- Zero, in slang
- Zips, a derogatory slang term for Italian-American or Sicilian-American mobsters
- Akron Zips, the University of Akron athletic teams
- Zig-zag in-line package, a type of electronic packaging
- Zip Feed Tower, a grain elevator and feed mill in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; demolished in 2005
- Zip-Zeta Inhibitory Peptide, inhibitor of PKM-zeta. Prevents Long-Term Potentiation
See also
- Zip, the Dodger, a 1914 film starring Fatty Arbuckle
- "Zip, Zip, Zip", an episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother
- Spiš, a region of Slovakia and Poland spelled Zips in German
- Zip card, an electronic ticket for use on London Transport
- Zip cube, firelighters
- Zip fuel, also called High Energy Fuel
- Zip gun (disambiguation)
- Zip tie, a cable fastener
- Zip tone, in telephony
- Zipp (disambiguation)
- Zipper (disambiguation)
- Zippy (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Zip
- All pages beginning with "Zip"
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