zippier; zippiest
: full of zip: such as
a
: very quick or speedy
a zippy sports car
b
: strikingly fresh, lively, or appealing in style
zippy clothes
Examples of zippy in a Sentence
a crowd of zippy children who'd been cooped up all day
she just bought a zippy new computer that should enable her to work more efficiently
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The interiors are a playful mash-up of old and new, taking design cues from classical Rome and swirling them together with zippy colors and patterns.
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 16 July 2025
Donkey Kong can also slide along on chunks of terrain in a zippy, madcap land-surfing mode that's wonderfully difficult to control effectively.
—ArsTechnica, 16 July 2025
This small but mighty desktop tower houses a zippy Ryzen 7 processor and an RX 9070 XT graphics card (comparable with an RTX 5070 Ti for you Nvidia fans), and will handle all your gaming needs with ease.
—Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 14 July 2025
There will be fouls, yellow cards, even times when zippy wingers can read his aggression and swipe the ball away.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 16 July 2025
Donkey Kong can also slide along on chunks of terrain in a zippy, madcap land-surfing mode that's wonderfully difficult to control effectively.
—ArsTechnica, 16 July 2025
This small but mighty desktop tower houses a zippy Ryzen 7 processor and an RX 9070 XT graphics card (comparable with an RTX 5070 Ti for you Nvidia fans), and will handle all your gaming needs with ease.
—Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 14 July 2025
There will be fouls, yellow cards, even times when zippy wingers can read his aggression and swipe the ball away.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for zippy
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“Zippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zippy. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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