zipless en · ADJ
Etymology
From zip + -less, the figurative sense coined (as “zipless fuck”) by Erica Jong in her novel Fear of Flying (1973), see quotations.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a zip fastener.
No longer in muddy, zipless, trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims […]
2006, Anthony McDonald, Adam:"The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.
1994, Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!:
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(figuratively, informal, not-comparable) Without complications and hindrances.
Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus […]
2002, Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory:[…] 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.
2004, Jane Isenberg, Hot on the Trail:For the true, ultimate zipless A-1 fuck, it was necessary that you never get to know the man very well.
1973, Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 12:And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless […]
2007, James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film: