Zippy is a word meaning "energetic and lively; quick, peppy, speedy". It may also refer to:

People

* Blaine Cook, stage name of Seattle punk singer * Greg Zipadelli (born 1967), nickname for the NASCAR crew chief *

Stuart Langridge Stuart Langridge (also known as 'Aq' or 'Zippy' ) is a podcaster, developer and author. He became a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, an invited expert on the W3C HTML Working Group and is an acknowledged commentator ...

, author and programmer nicknamed Zippy *

Tzipi Livni Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni ( he, ציפי (ציפורה) מלכה לבני, ; born 8 July 1958) is an Israeli politician, diplomat, and lawyer. A former member of the Knesset and leader in the center-left political camp, Livni is a former fore ...

, an Israeli politician and former minister of foreign affairs

Fictional characters

Mr. ZIP Mr. ZIP, informally "Zippy", is a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and later by its successor, the United States Postal Service, to encourage the general public to include the ZIP Code in all mailing ...

, informally Zippy, a cartoon character used by the U.S. Postal Service *

Zippy (mascot) Zippy is the female mascot of the University of Akron athletics team. Zippy is a kangaroo, and was chosen by a committee in 1953. The school's nickname, "Zips", is a shortening of "Zippers", a pair of rubber overshoes and a brand name of the B ...

, the name of the mascot for the University of Akron Zips *

Zippy (Rainbow) Zippy is a fictional character on the British children's television programme ''Rainbow''. Zippy is a light-orange ("tangerine") puppet of ambiguous species with a rugby-ball-shaped oval head, blue eyes and a zip for a mouth, hence his name. Hi ...

, a character in ''Rainbow'', a British pre-school children's television series *

Zippy the Pinhead Zippy the Pinhead is a fictional character who is the protagonist of ''Zippy'', an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith. Zippy's most famous quotation, "Are we having fun yet?", appears in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' and became a ...

, the main character in a comic strip of the same name

Other uses

* Zipair Tokyo (callsign code: ZIPPY), a low-cost Japanese airline *

Zippy Race ''MotoRace USA'' (also known as ''Traverse USA'', in Japan as and in Spain as ''Mototour'') is a racing video game developed and released in arcades by Irem in 1983. In North America, it was released by Williams Electronics. The player contro ...

, a motorbike-driving arcade game *Zippy Water Heaters, a colloquial name for Zip Instant Boiling Water taps made by Zip Industries *Zippy, a former name of the data compression library Snappy

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