English

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Etymology 1

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From un- +‎ zipper.

Verb

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unzipper (third-person singular simple present unzippers, present participle unzippering, simple past and past participle unzippered)

  1. (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.

Etymology 2

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From unzip +‎ -er.

Noun

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unzipper (plural unzippers)

  1. (computing) A program that extracts files from compressed archives.
    • 1992 March 31, PC Mag, volume 11, number 6:
      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.