Phrase guide

zip fastener

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • General-American: /ˈzɪp ˌfæs(ə)nɚ/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈzɪp ˌfɑːs(ə)nə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A fastener used in clothing, bags, etc, comprised of two rows of teeth that are made to fit into each other by moving a slider along their length and opened again by moving the slider in the other direction.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A pressure-sensitive plastic closure.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: slide fastener, zip, zipper

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

148 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: zinxhir — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Arabic: سَحَّاب (saḥḥāb) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Arabic: زِمَام مُنْزَلِق (zimām munzaliq) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Arabic: سوستة (sósta) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Arabic: سحاب (saḥāb) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Arabic: سَحَّاب (saḥḥāb) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Arabic: سُسْتة (susta) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Arabic: سنسلة (sansla) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Armenian: կայծակաճարմանդ (kaycakačarmand) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Azerbaijani: molniya — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Azerbaijani: siyirmə — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Azerbaijani: zəncirbənd — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Basque: kremailera — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Belarusian: мала́нка (malánka) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Belarusian: за́сцежка-мала́нка (záscježka-malánka) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Belarusian: зме́йка (zmjéjka) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Bengali: জিপার (jipar) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Bulgarian: цип (cip) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Burmese: ဇစ် (jac) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Catalan: cremallera — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Chechen: догӏа (doğa) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Cherokee: ᏗᎧᏁᏍᏙᏗ (dikanesdodi) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Chinese Cantonese: 拉鏈 /拉链 — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拉鏈 /拉链 (lāliàn) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Cornish: zyp — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Crimean Tatar: zıncır — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Czech: zip — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Czech: zdrhovadlo — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Danish: lynlås — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Dutch: rits — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Dutch: ritssluiting — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Esperanto: zipo — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Estonian: tõmblukk — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Faroese: snarlás — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Faroese: lýnlás — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Finnish: vetoketju — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • French: fermeture éclair — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • French: tirette — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Galician: cremalleira — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Georgian: ელვა (elva) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Georgian: ელვა-შესაკრავი (elva-šesaḳravi) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Georgian: ელვაშესაკრავი (elvašesaḳravi) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • German: Reißverschluss — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • German: Zippverschluss — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Greek: φερμουάρ (fermouár) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Haitian Creole: zip — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Hausa: zik — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Hebrew: רוֹכְסָן (rokhsán) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Hebrew: ריצ׳רץ׳ (ríchrach) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Hindi: ज़िपर (zipar) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Hindi: ज़िप (zip) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Hungarian: cipzár — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Icelandic: rennilás — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Ido: zipo — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Indonesian: resleting — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Interlingua: serratura fulmine — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Irish: sip — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Italian: chiusura lampo — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Italian: cerniera — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Japanese: ジッパー (jippā) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Japanese: ファスナー (fasunā) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Japanese: ジップファスナー (jippufasunā) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Japanese: 線ファスナー (sen fasunā) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Japanese: チャック (chakku) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Kazakh: сылдырма ілгек (syldyrma ılgek) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Kazakh: ілгек (ılgek) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Khmer: ខ្សែរូត (khsae ruut) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Korean: 지퍼 (jipeo) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Korean: 자꾸 (jakku) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Northern Kurdish: fermûar — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Kyrgyz: молния (molniya) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Lao: ຊິບ (sip) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Latvian: rāvējslēdzējs — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Lithuanian: užtrauktukas — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Macedonian: пате́нт (patént) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Malay: zip — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Malay: alat pengancing — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Maltese: żipp — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Māori: nihokati — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Central Melanau: zip — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Mongolian: цахилгаан (caxilgaan) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Norwegian Bokmål: glidelås — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: glidelås — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Occitan: cremalhièra — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Ojibwe: zipobijigan — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Iranian Persian: زیپ (zip) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Plautdietsch: Rietknoop — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Plautdietsch: Rutschknoop — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Polish: zamek błyskawiczny — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Polish: zamek — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Polish: suwak — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Portuguese: zíper — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Portuguese: fecho de correr — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Portuguese: fecho éclair — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Portuguese: fecho ecler — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Portuguese: zipe — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Portuguese: fechicler — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Romanian: fermoar — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Russian: застёжка-мо́лния (zastjóžka-mólnija) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Russian: мо́лния (mólnija) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Russian: зме́йка (zméjka) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Sardinian: cernera — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: ра̀јсфершлус — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: па̀тентнӣ затва̀ра̄ч — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: цѝфершлус — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: сми́чак — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: зи̏п — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: ràjsferšlus — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: pàtentnī zatvàrāč — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: cìferšlus — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: smíčak — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Serbo-Croatian: zȉp — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Slovak: zips — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Slovene: zadrga — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: cremallera — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: zíper — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: riqui — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: cíper — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: zipe — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: cierre — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: cierre relámpago — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: cierre eclair — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: cierre éclair — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: síper — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Spanish: zipper — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Swedish: dragkedja — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Swedish: blixtlås — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Tagalog: hukusan — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Tagalog: hukos — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Tagalog: siper — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Tamil: பற்பிணை (paṟpiṇai) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Thai: ซิป (síp) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Tibetan: འཛིབ ('dzib) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Turkish: fermuar — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Ukrainian: бли́скавка (blýskavka) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Ukrainian: за́стібка-бли́скавка (zástibka-blýskavka) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Ukrainian: змі́йка (zmíjka) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Urdu: زِپ (zip) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Uzbek: fermuar — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Uzbek: molniya — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Vietnamese: khoá kéo — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Vietnamese: phéc-mơ-tuya — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Volapük: sleifülöm — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Volapük: tutilafärmüköm — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Welsh: sip — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Welsh: sipiau — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Yiddish: בליצשלעסל (blitsshlesl) — a fastener used in clothing, bags
  • Yiddish: שלעסל (shlesl) — a fastener used in clothing, bags