unzipper
English
Etymology 1
un- + zipper
Verb
unzipper (third-person singular simple present unzippers, present participle unzippering, simple past and past participle unzippered)
- (transitive) To unzip.
- 1998, Robert J. Andreach, Creating the self in the contemporary American theatre (page 30)
- He unzippers his fly, but he does not ask Mae to come to him as Lloyd did in scene 1.
- 1998, Robert J. Andreach, Creating the self in the contemporary American theatre (page 30)
Etymology 2
unzip + -er
Noun
unzipper (plural unzippers)
- (computing) A program that extracts files from compressed archives.
- 1992, PC Mag (volume 11, number 6, 31 March 1992)
- The problem is that you may not have the necessary unzipper.
- 1995, Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer (page 202)
- Which comes first, the ZIP file or the unzipper? You can't uncompress a file containing PKUNZIP unless you first have PKUNZIP.
- 1992, PC Mag (volume 11, number 6, 31 March 1992)