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| - Zips was the pet monkey of Alexander Iskender.
- little plastic people
- Zips were small, flying, motorcycle-like vehicles in the Barbican in Dr. Zetlin's Lifelight fantasy. The zips were shaped like motorcycles with control pedals, a pointed nose, and two handlebars. The left handlebar controlled braking and the right one controlled speed. The pedals made the nose point down when the rider pushed it with their toes and up when they pushed with their heel. Zips could work under water, but like all Dr. Z's technology, it was useless outside of the Barbican.
- Although Zips seems to possess an understanding of the mechanics of Minecraft and the Galacticraft mod, he generally seems confused, forgetting how to craft simple items and perform simple tasks, and believing he could get into space by building a giant nerdpole. Additionally, while he seems to have been supplied with information that would allow him to pass for Sips, much of it is flawed or openly incorrect; he repeatedly refers to the SipsCo Dirt Company and its slogan "Big Money, Big Women, Big Fun" as the ZipsCo Gravel Company, with the slogan "No Money, No Women, No Fun", and calls Slime Island "Goo Fort". He also consistently pronounces Sjin's name as "Si-jin", unlike the real Sips who simplifies it to "Shin".
- Zips is a slang term used as a derogatory slur by Italian-American and Sicilian-American mobsters in reference to newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi. The name is said to have originated from mobsters' inability to understand the faster-speaking Sicilian dialects, which appeared to "zip" by. Ironically, the older Sicilian mafiosi of pre-Prohibition known as "Mustache Petes" were also referred to as "zips".
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