Meanings of zip past in English

He gripped the steering wheel, watched the road zip past, grey fringed with green.

Fork lifts zip past with palettes of Acer computers, Samsung flat-panel televisions or Panasonic microwaves.

So I zip past her, and she says out loud, 'Hey, where's that guy going?'

It was hoped that the missiles would zip past him and explode harmlessly in the sky above.

Mopeds zip past in the narrowest spaces.

We walk in silence for a while, as insects zip past our heads and summer hums around us.

Dom saw movement zip past his eyeline and knelt back on his heels in one movement to open fire.

Two more torpedoes zip past, and then over the seas comes bounding a destroyer, smoke bellying from her funnels.

It would be easy to zip past King Street Confectionery on the way to Port Stephens but that'd be a mistake.

The probe will zip past Venus in six weeks and make a first rendezvous with the Sun a further six weeks after that.

The piloted flyby spacecraft would zip past Venus for the first time on mission day 149 (21 June 1977), releasing 10 automated probes.

The 6000 runners will start (at 9.30am) and finish at the Knavesmire and zip past compulsory York landmarks including the Shambles and Clifford's Tower.

At the next heave a second bullet went zipping past, perilously near.

He staggers in the forecourt as a ball zips past his ears.

The truck that you've been watching in your side mirror zips past.

And then it happens: Something zips past you on the street and you're awestruck.