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slide fastener
noun
A zip fastener.
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The Talon Slide Fastener Co. make most of the zippers used in this country.
Zipper, also called slide fastener, device for binding the edges of an opening such as on a garment or a bag.
The idea of a slide fastener was exhibited by Whitcomb L. Judson at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.
In 1923 B.G. Work of the B.F. Goodrich Company gave the name zipper to the slide fastener that had just been adopted for closing overshoes.
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In 1917 the U.S. Navy equipped windproof flying suits with slide fasteners.
Miscellaneous Small Wares is also known as sieves, manequins, powder-puffs, buttons, zippers, combs, slide fasteners, dummies, dusters.
The owner of the trailer, Joel Barrocas, said that he used the trailer and four others near it to store materials for his factory down the block, Mona Slide Fasteners Inc., which makes shoulder pads, belts, rhinestones and plastic menu covers.
Slide a metal paper fastener through the dinosaur body in the hole corresponding to the head.
"At least six fasteners were loose enough to slide a ruler under". And two fasteners did not have any bolts at all.
A stapler with a rotating anvil that can be set to direct the ends of the staple outward can serve the purpose of a pin in temporarily attaching papers but leaving the fastener relatively easy to slide out.
Simply remove any fasteners or beads and gently slide the jewelry's thin portion into the piercing.
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