zippo

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See also: zippò and Zippo

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

zip +‎ -o

Adjective

zippo (not comparable)

  1. (slang) None whatsoever
    • 2007 January 14, G. Pascal Zachary, “Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash”, in New York Times‎:
      “The whole situation is magnificent news, especially when the problem has been zippo investment by large corporations in Africa,” says Robert H. Bates […] .
Translations

Etymology 2

Popular slang among American soldiers in the Vietnam War; from the Zippo brand of lighter.

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Verb

zippo (third-person singular simple present zippos, present participle zippoing, simple past and past participle zippoed)

  1. (slang) To light on fire.
    • 2012, Tom Knox, The Lost Goddess‎:
      The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.
    • 2009, Nigel Cawthorne, Vietnam‎:
      Once the last villagers had left Ben Suc, the buildings were doused with petrol and zippoed.
    • 1987, Reuben Noel, Nancy Noel, Saigon for a song‎:
      I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.

Italian

Verb

zippo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of zippare

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