Zip

Zip, Zips or ZIP may refer to:

Common uses

• ZIP Code, USPS postal code
• Zipper or zip, clothing fastener

Science and technology

Computing

• ZIP (file format), a compressed archive file format whose typical file extension is .zip
  • zip, a command-line program from Info-ZIP
• Zipping (computer science), or zip, reorganizing lists of lists
• Zip drive, a removable disk storage system
• Zone Information Protocol, AppleTalk protocol
• Zip Chip, Apple II accelerators by Zip Technologies
• .zip (top-level domain), an Internet top-level domain operated by Google Registry

Other science and technology

• Zip tone, in telephony
• Zig-zag in-line package, electronic packaging
• Zip fuel, a type of jet fuel
• Zip tie, a cable fastener
• Zrt- and Irt-like proteins, or Zips, zinc transporters

Arts, entertainment and media

• Zip (game), a children's game
• Zip (roller coaster), at Oaks Amusement Park, Oregon, US
• Zip, a band formed by Pete Shelley
• Zip Comics, 1940-1944
• ZIP FM, a radio station, Vilnius, Lithuania
• ZIP Magazine, UK
• Zip, a character in the Tomb Raider video games
• Zip, a vertical line in Barnett Newman's paintings

Film and television

• Zip (TUGS), a character in the British children's television series TUGS
• title character of Zip, the Dodger, a 1914 film starring Fatty Arbuckle
• ZIP, a fictional amnestic drug in the Blindspot TV series

Brands, enterprises and products

• Zip (airline), a former Canadian airline
• Mr. ZIP, a promotional character
• Piaggio Zip, a scooter
• Zip Co, an Australian fintech company
• Zip Industries, an Australian manufacturer of hot water dispensers
• Zip's Drive-in, an American restaurant chain
• Zip.ca, a Canadian DVD rental service
• Zip card, for travel in London, UK
• Zip Fires, firelighters

Places

• Žíp, a village in Slovakia
• Spiš or Zips, Slovakia
• Zip City, Alabama, US

People

• Zip Collins (1892–1983), American baseball player
• John Connolly (FBI) (born 1940), nicknamed "Zip"
• Zip Hanna (1916–2001), American football player
• Zip Zabel (1891–1970), American baseball player
• Bohdan Zip (1929–2017), Canadian politician
• Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer William Henry Johnson (c. 1857–1926)
• a ring name of Tom Prichard (born 1959), American retired professional wrestler

Other uses

• Zip, slang for zero
• Zips, a derogatory term used by Italian-American mobsters for newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi
• Akron Zips, the University of Akron athletic teams
• Zip Feed Tower, a former grain elevator in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US

See also

• Zip gun (disambiguation)
• "Zip, Zip, Zip", an episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother
• Zipp (disambiguation)
• Zipper (disambiguation)
• Zippy (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Zip
• All pages with titles beginning with Zip