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 ** zip, a command-line program from Info-ZIP *

Zipping (computer science) In computer science, zipping is a function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples. This name zip derives from the action of a zipper in that it interleaves two formerly disjoint sequences. The inverse function is ''unzip''. E ...

, or zip, reorganizing lists of lists * Zip drive, a removable disk storage system * Zone Information Protocol, AppleTalk protocol *

Zip Chip Apple II accelerators are computer hardware devices which enable an Apple II computer to operate faster than their intended clock rate. 8-bit accelerators Number Nine Apple Booster – ''Number Nine Computer Corporation (Number Nine Visual ...

, Apple II accelerators by Zip Technologies

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 ''Zip'' was a weekly men's magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 1 March 2013 as a sister title to '' Loaded'' and was published by Blue Publishing for nine issues before being sold to OOHYEAH Publishing. It relaunched in ...

'', UK * Zip, a character in the ''Tomb Raider'' video games * Zip, a vertical line in

Barnett Newman Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism, and one of the foremost color field painters. His paintings explore the sense o ...

'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 cube, firelighters

Places

* Žíp, a village in Slovakia * Spiš or Zips, Slovakia *

Zip City, Alabama Zip City is a small unincorporated community in Lauderdale County in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, at the intersection of Alabama Highway 17 and County Road 8. Zip City falls within the U.S. Central Time Zone. It is part of th ...

, US

People

Zip Collins John Edgar Collins (May 4, 1892 – December 19, 1983) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. Biography He was born on May 4, 1892 in Brooklyn, New York. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates during the and seasons, the Boston Braves ...

(1892–1983), American baseball player *

John Connolly (FBI) John Joseph Connolly Jr. (born August 1, 1940) is an American former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice, and murder charges stemming from his relationship with James "Whitey" Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Wint ...

(born 1940), nicknamed "Zip" * Zip Hanna (1916–2001), American football player * Zip Zabel (1891–1970), American baseball player *

Bohdan Zip Bohdan "Bud" Zip (March 5, 1929 – April 19, 2017) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1986. Early life Bohdan Zip was born in 1929 in the community of Yellow Cr ...

(1929–2017), Canadian politician *

Zip the Pinhead William Henry Johnson ( – April 9, 1926), known as Zip the Pinhead, was an American freak show performer known for his tapered head. Early life William Henry Johnson was born one of six children to a very poor African-American family. ...

, 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 The Zip Feed Tower was a grain elevator and feed mill in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. At it was the tallest occupiable structure in South Dakota from its construction in 1956–57 until its demolition in December 2005. The mill closed in 2000 and i ...

, a former grain elevator in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US