The word "zipper" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a fastener used to join two openings or edges of fabric or other material, especially on clothing. For example, "My favorite coat has a big zipper down the front."
To the divided and demoralised Democrats, Mr Blair has often seemed the leader the party so conspicuously lacks: Bill Clinton reborn with a zipper.
Readers can linger on the brilliant illustration of 2013 by Kevin Kallaugher, The Economist's editorial cartoonist, before taking a tour of the world's contemporary-art biennials in the company of Glenn Lowry of New York's Museum of Modern Art, or exploring both the heavens and the depths of the oceans, pausing to celebrate the centenary of Bollywood as well as that of the modern zipper.
But think of how important a zipper is".What makes the VF-45 standard so promising is that the Taiwanese will redesign their equipment, the fiddly electronic bits that make LANs work, to run on it from next month.
"It's simply a small item, like a zipper.
Greenwood, another Delta town, lost piano, zipper and tyre factories, among others.
One Iowa pastor, referring to his two divorces, both preceded by extramarital affairs, calls him "a very fine, empty suit with a broken zipper".
One method is to feed the zipper some text in one language, then switch the input to a different language.
He also pointed to the so-called zipper system in the works in parliament, which would require male and female candidates to appear alternately on party lists.Yet many participants felt that the government could do more.
The zipper suddenly finds that the tricks that it has picked up to encode the first language are not much help in encoding the second.
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.
In the 20th century, buttons became primarily utilitarian, not decorative, and in many applications were supplanted by the zipper.
