zip file

noun

plural zip files

: a computer file that contains compressed versions of one or more original files from which redundant information has been removed

All six images download in a zip file, and you can then print as many as you'd like!

—Michelle Parkerton

called also zipped file

Examples of zip file in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

None of my attempts to open 11 spreadsheets from a zip file worked. —Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025

After downloading the zip file to a desktop, unzip it to access its contents. —Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025

After receiving the online payments, prosecutors said Garcia Aranda sent a link to a zip file containing the content. —Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 19 Feb. 2025

This zip file, along with some system data, is sent to a remote server. —Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2024

In 2019, someone acting under the pseudonym Spartacus sent a mass email to many of the island’s residents enclosing a zip file full of many of the same leaks that James had sent me. —Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024

Use the download button to get a zip file with all the templates or, on a mobile device, touch and hold any of the images below to save them as individual photos. Download Templates Get in Touch. —ProPublica, 1 Feb. 2024

Word History

Etymology

from the .ZIP file format and file extension, probably from zip entry 1

First Known Use

1989, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for zip file

• argyle
• awhile
• beguile
• compile
• condyle
• defile
• erstwhile
• exile
• freestyle
• gentile
• hairstyle
• lifestyle