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How to spell zipper

Zipper is spelled Z-I-P-P-E-R. The part people get wrong: double P.

What it means: A fastener for locking together two edges with a sliding tab.

In a sentence: I zipped up my coat with the zipper. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p.

Same family: zip, zipped, zipping, zip-up, zipper-pull. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “zipper” comes from the sound it makes—an imitation like “zip!”—and was popularized in the early 1900s by the B.F. Goodrich Company for a new kind of fastener on boots and rubber boots. Before that, similar devices were often called “slide fasteners.”

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