zipless

English

Etymology

zip +‎ -less, the figurative sense coined (as "zipless fuck") by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (1973).

Adjective

zipless (not comparable)

1. Without a zip fastener.
   • 1994, Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!:

     "The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.

   • 2006, Anthony McDonald, Adam:

     No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]

2. (informal, figuratively) Without complications and hindrances.
   • 2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory:

     Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus […]

   • 2004, Jane Isenberg, Hot on the Trail:

     […] wedding planners who would check out venues, prices, caterers and all that stuff and then put it together for us, so it would be a zipless wedding.

   • 2007, James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film:

     And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless […]

Synonyms

• (without complications and hindrances): no strings attached

Derived terms

• ziplessness

See also

• zipper sex