zipless
English
Etymology
zip + -less, the figurative sense coined (as "zipless fuck") by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (1973).
Adjective
zipless (not comparable)
- Without a zip fastener.
- 1994, Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!
- "The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.
- 2006, Anthony McDonald, Adam
- No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]
- 1994, Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!
- (informal, figuratively) Without complications and hindrances.
- 2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory
- Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus […]
- 2004, Jane Isenberg, Hot on the Trail
- […] 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.
- 2007, James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film
- And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless […]
- 2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory
Derived terms
Synonyms
- (without complications and hindrances): no strings attached
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