"zip one's lip" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-zip one's lip.ogg Forms: zips one's lip [present, singular, third-person], zipping one's lip [participle, present], zipped one's lip [participle, past], zipped one's lip [past], zip it [alternative], zip up one's lip [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} zip one's lip (third-person singular simple present zips one's lip, present participle zipping one's lip, simple past and past participle zipped one's lip)
  1. (informal, often imperative, idiomatic) To refrain from or to stop talking; to be quiet; shut up. Tags: idiomatic, imperative, informal, often Synonyms: button it, button one’s lip, can it, put a sock in it, shut it, shut one’s face, shut one’s gob, shut one’s mouth, shut one’s trap, shut up

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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