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, 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

Business, enterprise and production

  • ZIPS: zero inventory production system, an aspect of lean manufacturing
  • 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)