ziplessadj.
/ˈzɪplᵻs/, U.S. /ˈzɪplᵻs/ 1. colloquial (originally U.S.). Lacking energy, vigour, or liveliness. Cf. zip n.1 1b.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > lacking animation
deadOE
lifelessOE
unquickc1475
exanimate?c1550
flat1604
unsprighty1607
spiritless1609
dead-alive1617
fireless1647
uninformed1709
inanimate1713
unanimated1734
nerveless1735
inanimated1753
dispirited1758
dead and alive1863
unalive1905
pepless1909
zipless1922
soggy1928
undead1936
1922 Mining Congr. Jrnl. May 716/2 It looks as though there is going to be a lot of that zipless campaigning in the sweet bye and bye.
1981 Canberra Times 13 May 18/5 The zipless droning began to agitate and other ALP members pointed out that Government members did not look exactly galvanised and inspired by their leader's words.
2004 Time Out N.Y. 30 Dec. 138/1 Matthew Broderick repeats his Leo Bloom shtick..in the Roundabout's zipless revival of a silly 1983 comedy by Larry Shue.
2.
a. Of an item of clothing, bag, etc.: having no zip fastener; lacking a zip or zips.
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1942 Country Life 17 Apr. 774/3 We get war fashions, born of emergencies—straight, trim skirts, cotton shirts and blouses, malleable, zipless handbags.
1987 B. Chatwin Songlines (1988) viii. 34 Most of them were wearing the standard uniform of the Outback male..: ‘stubbies’..are green, tight-fitting, zipless shorts.
2020 Daily Mail (Nexis) 15 June These dresses need to have holiday spirit... Relaxed, wrappy, zipless and lining free is the way to go.
b. Designating a brief, uncomplicated, and passionate sexual encounter.Originally and chiefly in zipless fuck (coarse slang), a phrase coined by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (see quot. 1973).
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [adjective] > types of
syndyasmian1877
casual1971
zipless1973
1973 E. Jong Fear of Flying i. 11 My response..was..to evolve my fantasy of the Zipless Fuck... Zipless because when you came together zippers fell away like petals.
1978 G. Vidal Kalki iii. 79 Girls who feared flying tended to race blindly through zipless fucks.
1984 Times 2 Nov. 11/1 This small hand I'm shaking..launched a thousand zipless erotic encounters for her heroine.
2001 F. North Fen iii. 22 You can't go on the rebound with your ex-girlfriend. It defeats the objects of the exercise. You need a good old zipless fuck.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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