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Tipless vs Zipless - What's the difference?

tipless | zipless |

As adjectives the difference between tipless and zipless

is that tipless is that does not tip over while zipless is without a zip fastener.

tipless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • That does not tip over.
    • a tipless cantilever
  • Without a gratuity.

    • zipless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a zip fastener.
  • * 1994 , Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!
    • "The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.
  • * 2006 , Anthony McDonald, Adam
    • No longer in muddy, zipless , trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims...
  • (informal, figuratively) Without complications and hindrances.
  • * 2002 , Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory
    • Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus...
  • * 2004 , Jane Isenberg, Hot on the Trail
    • ...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.
  • * 2007 , James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film
    • And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless ...

    Derived terms

    * ziplessness