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zip
noun- an Italian or Sicilian criminal brought to the US for criminal purposes, especially murder US, 1993
- He said the zips are Sicilians being brought into the country to distribute heroin and carry out hits[.] — Joseph Pistone, Donnie Brasco, p. 131, 1987
- Tommy’s a Zip. You know what I mean? One of those guys they used to import from Sicily to handle the rough stuff. Guy could be a peasant right out of the fucking Middle Ages, looks around, and he’s in Miami Beach. Can’t believe it. They hand the Zip a gun and say, “There, that guy.” And the Zip takes him out. — Elmore Leonard, Pronto, pp. 16–17, 1993
- a Viet Cong; a Vietnamese; any South Asian person US
- — Current Slang, p. 19, Summer 1970
- “You be lucky Mayhew don’t think you a Zip an’ blast your fuckin’ head off.” — Michael Herr, Dispatches, p. 129, 1977
- This term was used by U.S. troops to connote the “worthlessness” of these people (zip = zero). — Maledicta, p. 126, Summer 1980
- [S]ome zonked-out zip crawled up sneaky-close in the mangled underbrush[.] — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 6, 1986
- Be advised I’ve got zips in the wire down here, over. — Platoon, 1986
- energy UK, 1900
- But there is a zip and a zing here, a supercivilized, metropolitan method of behavior, unique and indescribable. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 11, 1948
- They had shown no zip. They weren’t hitting. They weren’t alert. — Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself, p. 111, 1984
- methamphetamine US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 146, 1997
- cocaine US, 1998
Probably from ZIPPED - — Nick Constable, This is Cocaine, p. 181, 2002
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 281, 2003
- nothing at all; zero US, 1900
- — Current Slang, p. 12, Winter 1969
- “Well, I didn’t want to fuck him for zip,” she said. — Dan Jenkins, Dead Solid Perfect, p. 78, 1986
- a handmade gun, a zip gun US, 1967
- "Ain't safe to walk around without a zip or knife and some friends.” — William Bernard, Jailbait, p. 87, 1949
- Picao, who I dug as no heart, squawked out, “Sticks, shanks, zips–you call it.” — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 52, 1967
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