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zipper
1925, probably from
zip
(1). The trademark taken out on the name that year applied to a boot with zippers, not to the "lightning fastener" itself, which was at first called a
zip
.
zip (v.2)
"to close or fasten by means of a zipper," 1932, back-formation from
zipper
.
