"a Sicilian. people from Italy. we called them zips cuz they'd zip in and zip out. they didn't like to talk much. they'd only get down to buisness or take care of someone then leave on the next plane out."- Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonnano
A useful numerical code that traces the city and state.
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Zip
A racial slur referring to people of East Asian descent. Most commonly it is a shortened version of the term zipperhead, but may also have a seperate origin as Vietnam War slang, an acronym for "Zero Intelligence Potential", in reference to enemy combatants/civilians (of Southeast Asian descent) that were unlikely to provide any worthwhile intelligence information, ie: just kill them, no reason to interrogate them.
Vietnamese, a Vietnamese. Perjorative and bigoted term used by American soldiers during the Vietnam war. May have originated as an abbreviation of the expression 'zipper-mouth.'