"zippo" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007 January 14, G. Pascal Zachary, “Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash”, in New York Times",
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        "None whatsoever"
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        "(slang) None whatsoever"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "none whatsoever",
          "word": "nolla-"
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  "word": "zippo"
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  "etymology_text": "Popular slang among American soldiers in the Vietnam War; from the Zippo brand of lighter.",
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    {
      "form": "zippos",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "zippoing",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "zippoed",
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      "form": "zippoed",
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          "name": "Fire",
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          "ref": "2012, Tom Knox, The Lost Goddess",
          "text": "The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.",
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          "ref": "2009, Nigel Cawthorne, Vietnam",
          "text": "Once the last villagers had left Ben Suc, the buildings were doused with petrol and zippoed.",
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          "ref": "1987, Reuben Noel, Nancy Noel, Saigon for a song",
          "text": "I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To light on fire."
      ],
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        "(slang) To light on fire."
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          "word": "Zippo"
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        "None whatsoever"
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        "(slang) None whatsoever"
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      "sense": "none whatsoever",
      "word": "nolla-"
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      "form": "zippoing",
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      "form": "zippoed",
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          "text": "Once the last villagers had left Ben Suc, the buildings were doused with petrol and zippoed.",
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          "text": "I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.",
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        "To light on fire."
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        "(slang) To light on fire."
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    {
      "word": "Zippo"
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