zippo
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Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]zippo (not comparable)
- (slang) None whatsoever
- 2007 January 14, G. Pascal Zachary, “Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash”, in New York Times[1]:
- “The whole situation is magnificent news, especially when the problem has been zippo investment by large corporations in Africa,” says Robert H. Bates […] .
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Popular slang among American soldiers in the Vietnam War; from the Zippo brand of lighter.
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[edit]Verb
[edit]zippo (third-person singular simple present zippos, present participle zippoing, simple past and past participle zippoed)
- (slang) To light on fire.
- 2012, Tom Knox, The Lost Goddess[2]:
- The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.
- 2009, Nigel Cawthorne, Vietnam[3]:
- Once the last villagers had left Ben Suc, the buildings were doused with petrol and zippoed.
- 1987, Reuben Noel, Nancy Noel, Saigon for a song[4]:
- I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.
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