zip along

zip along

1. To move very speedily. I used to see him zipping along on his motorbike each morning. The runners zipped along on the race course.
2. To get moving; to leave promptly. You zip along and try those problems on your own—if you still have questions, we can go over them tomorrow during my office hours. I had better zip along before the bank closes.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

zip along

to move along very fast. The motorcycle zipped along nicely. Let's zip along and get there on time.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

zip along

in. to move along rapidly. Days are zipping along, and we’re all getting lots done.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • have to be moving along
  • I have to be moving along
  • I have to move along
  • come along
  • move along
  • rip along
  • work (one's) way along
  • work way along
  • famously
  • get on/along famously
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The seven-car maglev - short for "magnetic levitation" - reached a top speed of 603km/h on Tuesday during what officials described as a "comfortable" zip along a test track near Mount Fuji, reports The Guardian.
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So there's a limit to how fast the particles can zip along, dictated by the energy of their unstable pion parents.
Neutrino parents set speed limits: faster-than-light flight would violate conservation laws
He's not commercial, doesn't pander to any market, his prose is not always accessible, it and certainly doesn't always zip along.
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We can now zip along to the capital in two hours and eight minutes.
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According to a report in National Geographic News, experts and entrepreneurs are looking at the potential of superconducting materials, which would allow power to zip along for miles with zero electrical resistance.
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It leaves the muzzles at 2,860 fps while generating 2,723 ft-lbs energy At 100 yards, it continues to zip along at 2,638 fps while retaining 2,318 ft-lbs of energy.
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Another crackerfrom Karen, with zip along prose and interspersed 'e-mails' which make reading this a positive breeze, and a bonus of a free mobile phone charm on the cover.
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Kids can also spring across a bog and zip along on a silken zip wire.
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