“The whole situation is magnificent news, especially when the problem has been zippo investment by large corporations in Africa,” says Robert H. Bates[…].2007 January 14, G. Pascal Zachary, “Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash”, in New York Times:
zippo
verb
Etymology Popular slang among American soldiers in the Vietnam War; from the Zippo brand of lighter.
I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.1987, Reuben Noel, Nancy Noel, Saigon for a song:
Once the last villagers had left Ben Suc, the buildings were doused with petrol and zippoed.2009, Nigel Cawthorne, Vietnam:
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The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.2012, Tom Knox, The Lost Goddess:
Zippo
noun
Etymology Trade name for lighters, established in the 1930s.
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A reusable lighter.
He was about to make the farewell flick of the wheel on his faithful Zippo, which had seen him through the Normany hedgerows, the Ardennes, Germany, and postwar America, when he heard a key in the front door, and voices.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 84: