zip code

To provide with, or allocate to, a zip code.

Noun

  1. A postal code, especially for addresses served by the US Postal Service, consisting of a five- or nine-figure number.
    • 90210 was a television show popular in the 1990s about a group of high school students and their families who all lived in the zip code 90210 in Beverly Hills, California, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles. - 2009, Judy...

    Synonyms: zip ZIP

    Hypernyms: postal code postcode

  2. Any postal code.
    • For example, the foreign zip code H24 JZL is most certainly not a number. - 1990, Alan Simpson, Paul Lichtman, The First Book of Lotus 1-2-3, H.W. Sams & Company, →ISBN:
    • Carrying the package to the stairs inside, I noticed it was addressed to Mom and me with a European zip code and stamp. - 2011, Jaime Reed, Burning Emerald, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 46:

    Synonyms: postal code postcode

  3. A postal code, especially for addresses served by PhilPost, consisting of a four-figure number.
  4. A grouping of athletes or teams with similar skill level.
    • Wallace and Brewer are almost certain to finish 1-2 in some order – no one else is even in the same zip code.

Origin

From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.

Forms

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Derived

have one's own zip code

Verb

  1. To provide with, or allocate to, a zip code.

Forms

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