unzipper
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]unzipper (third-person singular simple present unzippers, present participle unzippering, simple past and past participle unzippered)
- (transitive) To unzip.
- 1998, Robert J. Andreach, Creating the self in the contemporary American theatre, page 30:
- He unzippers his fly, but he does not ask Mae to come to him as Lloyd did in scene 1.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]unzipper (plural unzippers)
- (computing) A program that extracts files from compressed archives.
- 1992 March 31, PC Mag, volume 11, number 6:
- The problem is that you may not have the necessary unzipper.
- 1995, Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer, page 202:
- Which comes first, the ZIP file or the unzipper? You can't uncompress a file containing PKUNZIP unless you first have PKUNZIP.