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

People

Blaine Cook Blaine "Zippy" Cook is the former lead singer of the early 1980s Seattle political punk band the Fartz. After they disbanded, he went on to front the thrash oriented the Accüsed. Cook currently fronts Toe Tag A toe tag is a piece of cardbo ...

, stage name of Seattle punk singer *

Greg Zipadelli Gregory C. Zipadelli, nicknamed "Zippy", (born April 21, 1967) is an American crew chief in NASCAR. He is currently the competition director at Stewart-Haas Racing. Zipadelli is most notable for being the crew chief of the #20 car for Joe Gibbs ...

(born 1967), nickname for the NASCAR crew chief * Stuart Langridge, 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 mailin ...

, 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

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, brand name for the dialler made by New Zealand-based Compuspec *Zippy Water Heaters, a colloquial name for Zip Instant Boiling Water taps made by

Zip Industries Zip Industries is a privately owned Australian business founded by Michael Crouch AC. It manufactures and markets instant boiling water systems. These are sold in more than seventy countries, where they are specified for use in kitchens, hospit ...

*Zippy, a former name of the data compression library Snappy

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