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zip

noun as in enthusiasm, energy

verb as in move about quickly

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Everywhere I looked—a dozen games in progress—I saw birdies zipping on flat lines.

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Roske pleaded guilty in April, nearly three years after being arrested outside Kavanaugh’s house with a pistol, zip ties, duct tape, pepper spray, crowbar and hammer, along with other burglary tools, according to court records.

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She described children being detained, saying federal agents “had them zip tied to each other.”

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Patrolling the cemetery one evening, PC Chris Middleton attempts to stop a young man zipping down a footpath on an electric scooter - but the masked figure simply ignores the constable and speeds off.

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They died from apparent suffocation and their wrists had been bound with zip ties, authorities said, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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