nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
(noun) a quantity of no importance; “it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”; “reduced to nil all the work we had done”; “we racked up a pathetic goose egg”; “it was all for naught”; “I didn’t hear zilch about it”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Trade name for lighters, established in the 1930s.
Zippo (plural Zippos)
A reusable lighter.
(military, slang) A boat, tank, etc. equipped with flamethrowers.
Zippo (third-person singular simple present Zippos, present participle Zippoing, simple past and past participle Zippoed)
Alternative spelling of zippo
zippo (not comparable)
(slang) None whatsoever
Popular slang among American soldiers in the Vietnam War; from the Zippo brand of lighter.
zippo (third-person singular simple present zippos, present participle zippoing, simple past and past participle zippoed)
(slang) To light on fire.
Source: Wiktionary
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
