Zippo
English
editEtymology
editTrade name for lighters, established in the 1930s.
Pronunciation
editAudio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
editZippo (plural Zippos)
- A reusable lighter.
- 1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 84:
- He was about to make the farewell flick of the wheel on his faithful Zippo, which had seen him through the Normany hedgerows, the Ardennes, Germany, and postwar America, when he heard a key in the front door, and voices.
- (military, slang) A boat, tank, etc. equipped with flamethrowers.
Verb
editZippo (third-person singular simple present Zippos, present participle Zippoing, simple past and past participle Zippoed)
- Alternative spelling of zippo