zipless
adjEtymology From zip + -less, the figurative sense coined (as “zipless fuck”) by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (1973), see quotations.
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Without a zip fastener.
- "The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.1994, Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!:
- No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]2006, Anthony McDonald, Adam:
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Figuratively, Informal Without complications and hindrances.
- For the true, ultimate zipless A-1 fuck, it was necessary that you never get to know the man very well.1973, Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 12:
- Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus […]2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory:
2 more examples
- […] wedding planners who would check out venues, prices, caterers and all that stuff and then put it together for us, so it would be a zipless wedding.2004, Jane Isenberg, Hot on the Trail:
- And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless […]2007, James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film:
- Derived terms
- ziplessness
- Related terms
- zipper sex