Zip
Zip, Zips or ZIP may refer to:
Common uses
[edit]Science and technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- ZIP (file format), a compressed archive file format
- zip, a command-line program from Info-ZIP
- Zipping (computer science), or zip, reorganizing lists of lists
- Zip drive, a removable disk storage system
- Zone Information Protocol, AppleTalk protocol
- Zip Chip, Apple II accelerators by Zip Technologies
- .zip (top-level domain), a top-level domain operated by Google
Other science and technology
[edit]- Zip tone, in telephony
- Zig-zag in-line package, electronic packaging
- Zip fuel, a type of jet fuel
- Zip tie, a cable fastener
- Zrt- and Irt-like proteins, or Zips, zinc transporters
Arts, entertainment and media
[edit]- Zip (game), a children's game
- Zip (roller coaster), at Oaks Amusement Park, Oregon, US
- Zip, a band formed by Pete Shelley
- Zip Comics, 1940-1944
- ZIP FM, a radio station, Vilnius, Lithuania
- ZIP Magazine, UK
- Zip, a character in the Tomb Raider video games
- Zip, a vertical line in Barnett Newman's paintings
Film and television
[edit]- Zip (TUGS), a character in the British children's television series TUGS
- title character of Zip, the Dodger, a 1914 film starring Fatty Arbuckle
- ZIP, a fictional amnestic drug in the Blindspot TV series
Brands, enterprises and products
[edit]- Zip (airline), a former Canadian airline
- Mr. ZIP, a promotional character
- Piaggio Zip, a scooter
- Zip Co, an Australian fintech company
- Zip Industries, an Australian manufacturer of hot water dispensers
- Zip's Drive-in, an American restaurant chain
- Zip.ca, a Canadian DVD rental service
- Zip card, for travel in London, UK
- Zip Fires, firelighters
Places
[edit]- Žíp, a village in Slovakia
- Spiš or Zips, Slovakia
- Zip City, Alabama, US
People
[edit]- Zip Collins (1892–1983), American baseball player
- John Connolly (FBI) (born 1940), nicknamed "Zip"
- Zip Hanna (1916–2001), American football player
- Zip Zabel (1891–1970), American baseball player
- Bohdan Zip (1929–2017), Canadian politician
- Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer William Henry Johnson (c. 1857–1926)
- a ring name of Tom Prichard (born 1959), American retired professional wrestler
Other uses
[edit]- Zip, slang for zero
- Zips, a derogatory term used by Italian-American mobsters for newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi
- Akron Zips, the University of Akron athletic teams
- Zip Feed Tower, a former grain elevator in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US
See also
[edit]- Zip gun (disambiguation)
- "Zip, Zip, Zip", an episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother
- Zipp (disambiguation)
- Zipper (disambiguation)
- Zippy (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Zip
- All pages with titles beginning with Zip