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Zipper vs Zapper - What's the difference?

zipper | zapper |

As nouns the difference between zipper and zapper

is that zipper is a zip fastener while zapper is a remote control for a television.

As a verb zipper

is to close a zipper.

zipper

English

(wikipedia zipper)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, US, Australia) A zip fastener.
  • A pressure-sensitive plastic closure.
  • (biochemistry) leucine zipper

    • Synonyms

    * slide fastener * zip (British), zip fastener (British)

    Meronyms

    * slider * teeth

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to close a zipper.
    • He zippered his sweater against the cold .
  • to put a zipper on an article.
    • ''This Fall jackets are zippered .
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    zapper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
    • The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper .
  • A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
  • (figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
  • * 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
    • If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick
  • * 2009 , Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
    • You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper .