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zippo
noun- nothing US
An embellished form of ZIP- “Not a damn thing,” he said. “I swear, I told him zippo.” — Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease, p. 233, 1993
- “Other than that, zippo to report.” — Jonathan Kellerman, Rage, p. 110, 2005
- energy US
- But when he managed to bounce back into big bucks with real zippo, as they say, he’d stocked the campaign larders of frontrunners in state and local elections. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Glitter Dome, p. 34, 1981
- a tank-mounted flame thrower US
An allusion to the branded cigarette lighter. - — Newsweek, p. 31, 25 July 1966
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 27, 1968
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