zippo

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zip +‎ -o

zippo (not comparable)

1. (slang) None whatsoever
   • 2007 January 14, G. Pascal Zachary, “Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash”, in New York Times‎:

     “The whole situation is magnificent news, especially when the problem has been zippo investment by large corporations in Africa,” says Robert H. Bates […] .

Popular slang among American soldiers in the Vietnam War; from the Zippo brand of lighter.

• Zippo

zippo (third-person singular simple present zippos, present participle zippoing, simple past and past participle zippoed)

1. (slang) To light on fire.
   • 2012, Tom Knox, The Lost Goddess‎:

     The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.

   • 2009, Nigel Cawthorne, Vietnam‎:

     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:

     I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.

zippo

1. first-person singular present indicative of zippare

• Zoppi, zoppi