zip code
verbEtymology From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.
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To provide with, or allocate to, a zip code.
zip code
nounalso spelled ZIP CodeUS /ˈzɪp koʊd/
Etymology From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.
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US A postal code, especially for addresses served by the US Postal Service, consisting of a five- or nine-figure number.
- 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.2009, Judy Root Aulette, Judith G. Wittner, Kristin Blakely, Gendered Worlds, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351:
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US, Broadly Any postal code.
- For example, the foreign zip code H24 JZL is most certainly not a number.1990, Alan Simpson, Paul Lichtman, The First Book of Lotus 1-2-3, H.W. Sams & Company, →ISBN:
- Carrying the package to the stairs inside, I noticed it was addressed to Mom and me with a European zip code and stamp.2011, Jaime Reed, Burning Emerald, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 46:
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Philippines A postal code, especially for addresses served by PhilPost, consisting of a four-figure number.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Broadly 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
- have one's own zip code