zip code
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈzɪp koʊd/
Audio (General American): (file)
Noun
[edit]- (US) A postal code, especially for addresses served by the US Postal Service, consisting of a five- or nine-figure number.
- Synonyms: zip, ZIP
- Hypernyms: postal code, postcode
- 2009, Judy Root Aulette, Judith G. Wittner, Kristin Blakely, Gendered Worlds[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351:
- 90210 was a television show popular in the 1990s about a group of high school students and their families who all lived in the zip code 90210 in Beverly Hills, California, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles.
- (US, by extension) Any postal code.
- Synonyms: postal code, postcode
- (Philippines) A postal code, especially for addresses served by PhilPost, consisting of a four-figure number.
- (sports, by extension) A grouping of athletes or teams with similar skill level.
- Wallace and Brewer are almost certain to finish 1-2 in some order – no one else is even in the same zip code.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]US postal code
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postcode — see postcode
Verb
[edit]zip code (third-person singular simple present zip codes, present participle zip coding, simple past and past participle zip coded)
- (transitive) To provide with, or allocate to, a zip code.
Further reading
[edit]- ZIP Code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- zip code, zipcode, ZIP code, ZIP Code, Zip Code at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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