ZIP is an abbreviation of:
- zoning improvement plan, better known as ZIP code
- zig-zag in-line package, a type of electronic packaging
- Zone Information Protocol - implementation of an OSI model layer
- Zip (file format)
- Zip drive -- disk format popularised by Iomega in the late 1990s
- zipper -- device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric together
- Zip the Pinhead -- circus freak show performer