: "Zipper" is the nickname for the podcast's tech host, with a recurring "lore" joke that their girlfriends are referred to as Zipper 2, 3, or 4.

: In the short film Zip , a 16-year-old singer-songwriter named Melody wakes up to find a zipper sewn across her mouth, a haunting metaphor for being silenced.

: Typical of these stories, the "ZIP" file acts as a gateway for a digital entity to infect the user's world or game environment. Horror Shorts: "Zip"

: The Twitch streamer Silky has shared viral "life stories" about his journey from a potential TSA agent to a streamer, often clipped as "Silky's Story".