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From ZIP Code , a trademark of the Zone Improvement Plan ” ) , introduced 1963.
zip code (plural zip codes )
( US ) A postal code , especially for addresses served by the US Postal Service, consisting of a five- or nine-figure number.
Synonyms: zip , ZIP
Hypernyms: postal code , postcode
2009 , Judy Root Aulette, Judith G. Wittner, Kristin Blakely, Gendered Worlds [1] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN , page 351 :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.
( US , by extension) Any postal code .
Synonyms: postal code , postcode
1990 , Alan Simpson, Paul Lichtman, The First Book of Lotus 1-2-3 [2] , H.W. Sams & Company, →ISBN :For example, the foreign zip code H24 JZL is most certainly not a number.
2011 , Jaime Reed, Burning Emerald , Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN , page 46 :Carrying the package to the stairs inside, I noticed it was addressed to Mom and me with a European zip code and stamp.
( PhilPost , consisting of a four-figure number.
( sports , by extension) 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 .
zip code (third-person singular simple present zip codes , present participle zip coding , simple past and past participle zip coded )
( transitive ) To provide with, or allocate to, a zip code.