zip up
zip up
1. To fasten two pieces of fabric together using a zipper, especially on a piece of clothing. A noun or pronoun can be used between "zip" and "up." Make sure you zip up the entrance to the tent when you leave, or the mosquitoes will get in! I zipped up my fur coat and headed out into the snowstorm.
2. slang To stop talking; to shut up. Usually used as an imperative. In this usage, "it," "your mouth," or "your lip(s)" is always used before or after "up." A: "But Mom, I don't want to go!" B: "Zip your mouth up, Charlie! You're going to math camp, and that's final!" All right, everyone, zip up your lips! I don't want to hear another sound until the presentation is over.
3. To travel very quickly or briefly to some higher or northerly location. I need to zip up to Chicago to meet with our business partners. I think I still have those toys in the attic. Let me zip up there and check.
See also: up, zip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
zip something up
1. to close a zipper. You should zip that zipper up. You should zip up that zipper.
2. to close a garment by zipping a zipper closed. You had better zip your jacket up. You had better zip up your jacket.
3. Sl. to close one's mouth. (Fig. on {2}.) Zip your mouth up, Fred! Zip up your mouth, Fred.
See also: up, zip
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- piece out
- (Is) this taken?
- angle
- angling
- not do (someone or oneself) any favors
- interpret for
- interpret for (someone)
- involve with
- involve with (someone or something)
- involved with