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(slang) None whatsoever quotations
“The whole situation is magnificent news, especially when the problem has been zippo investment by large corporations in Africa,” says Robert H. Bates […] .
2007 January 14, G. Pascal Zachary, “Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash”, in New York Times
third-person singular simple present zippos, present participle zippoing, simple past and past participle zippoed
(slang) To light on fire. quotations
The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.
2012, Tom Knox, The Lost Goddess
Once the last villagers had left Ben Suc, the buildings were doused with petrol and zippoed.
2009, Nigel Cawthorne, Vietnam
I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.
1987, Reuben Noel, Nancy Noel, Saigon for a song