What does YKK on zippers mean?
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YKK stands for "Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha", the name of the Japanese company. The letters were stamped onto products and eventually became the trademark and official name of the company. \n\nToday, the company is so well-known for their zippers, there is even a market for counterfeit YKK zippers.
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Generally speaking it doesn't mean anything. Here's some more information:\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.htm
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Its short for emotional hun. Its not guys who dress up in girls clothes. It does refer to the type of clothes they wear though. I can't describe it exactly and the type of music they listen to. Its just another group, like goths , pikeys and chavs
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They wear pants with zippers that go all the way around between their legs.  That way they can do their business without getting too cold.  Alternatively, some pants have a zippable butt flap like old-style long johns.  In any case, it's important to make sure the zippers on all your layers line up.
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I think it's a hygiene issue more then anything. I know for girls there can be discharge (sorry to gross you out guys if you didn't know that already) and as well, it's a comfort thing. I know that when I wear jeans with nothing else, it tends to hurt down there and get irritated.. Don't know for guys though if that happens? I have heard about zipper accidents without underwear though!! Ouch!!
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squirrel nut zippers\n\nthat's weird ... this has been asked a bunch today ... I have to wonder if it's part of a trivia game somewhere
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It's actually a slang phrase...which I think means something is so nice and new and different  that its literally right off the store shelf. (It started in reference to clothing, with the hanger being the hook)
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♡Well, I live in Japan and I think the regular phrase would be "suteki na" 素敵 【すてき】 (adj-na,n) lovely; dreamy; beautiful; great; fantastic; superb; *cool; capital. ～But I always hear the "younger" Japanese girls (and guys) use the word "kakkoii!"  (sounds like "kah-koo-ee"). I'm not sure about the spelling, but I know it means something along the lines of "cool, wonderful, great..."! (☆Found it with my hubby's help!)↓\nhttp://rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dosearch?sDict=on&H=PS&L=J&T=kakkoii&WC=none&FG=w&BG=b&S=26\n That could be used. They use it for good looking guys, fashionable clothes, wonderful accessories... I'm sure someone will give you the correct spelling or another option! Hope this helps!♡\n♡Kara, I suggest you go to this site and check the Japanese words for yourself too.(*^o^*) You can learn lots of new words and choose the ones you like best!\nhttp://rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dict\nIt's easy, enter the Japanese word, for example kakkoii, Ikemen, bishounen and press "go". Your answers will appear soon. It's a useful site!
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It is called either a yarmulka or a kippa. It represents that a Jewish man is under the covering of G-d; that we are submitted to Him. It's a sign of submission.
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Zippers were first used in men's trousers in 1937.
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The one we use today was invented by George Sundback.\n\nThose mysterious marking etched on the zippers of many of the clothing items you own are little more than the name of the top manufacturer of zippers. A quick search on "ykk zippers" took us right to the web site of the fastener giant. \nThe company got its start in Japan in 1934, and opened its first office in 1960 in New York City. It eventually grew to become the country's top supplier of zippers and other fastening devices such as snaps and buttons. Today, their plant in Macon, Georgia, produces 1,500 styles of zippers in 427 standard colors for use on clothing as well as other items, such as tents or boat covers. Besides notions, YKK also manufactures "entrances and window systems." \n\nWhat does the "YKK" stand for? Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, the name of the Japanese company. The letters were stamped onto products and eventually became the trademark and official name of the company.
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In proper English, the word [noun] 'pants' (usually in the plural) means a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately - a gender-neutral apparel, which can be worn by both men and women.\n...If you are referring to 'underpants'(also in the plural), though, these are ONLY worn by women !
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'KKD' - what the hell are you on about, a Key-Gen?! - This Yahoo!er is asking for drivers!\n\nIdiot.
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Mr. Whitcomb Judson (who also invented the 'Pneumatic Street Railway') marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a device similar to the 1851 Howe patent\n\nIt was a long way up for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept so much in our lives 'together.' On its way up the zipper has passed through the hands of several dedicated inventors, none convinced the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday costume. The magazine and fashion industry made the novel zipper the popular item it is today, but it happened nearly eighty years after the zipper's first appearance.\n\nElias Howe, who invented the sewing machine received a patent in 1851 for an 'Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure.' Perhaps it was the success of the sewing machine, which caused Elias not to pursue marketing his clothing closure. As a result, Howe missed his chance to become the recognized 'Father of the Zip.'\n\nForty-four years later, Mr. Whitcomb Judson (who also invented the 'Pneumatic Street Railway') marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a device similar to the 1851 Howe patent. Being first to market gave Whitcomb the credit of being the 'Inventor of the Zipper', However, his 1893 patent did not use the word zipper. The Chicago inventor's 'Clasp Locker' was a complicated hook-and-eye shoe fastener. Together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device. The clasp locker had its public debut at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and met with little commercial success. \nSwedish-born (who later immigrated to Canada), Gideon Sundback, an electrical engineer, was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company. Good design skills and a marriage to the plant-manager's daughter Elvira Aronson led Sundback to the position of head designer at Universal. He was responsible for improving the far from perfect 'Judson C-curity Fastener.' Unfortunately, Sundback's wife died in 1911. The grieving husband busied himself at the design table and by December of 1913,  he had designed the modern zipper.\n\nGideon Sundback increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven, had two facing-rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider. The patent for the 'Separable Fastener' was issued in 1917. Sundback also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. The 'S-L' or scrapless machine took a special Y-shaped wire and cut scoops from it, then punched the scoop dimple and nib, and clamped each scoop on a cloth tape to produce a continuous zipper chain. Within the first year of operation, Sundback's zipper-making machinery was producing a few hundred feet of fastener per day.\n\n\nThe popular 'zipper' name came from the B. F. Goodrich Company, when they decided to use Gideon's fastener on a new type of rubber boots or galoshes and renamed the device the zipper, the name that lasted. Boots and tobacco pouches with a zippered closure were the two chief uses of the zipper during its early years. It took twenty more years to convince the fashion industry to seriously promote the novel closure on garments.\n\nIn the 1930’s, a sales campaign began for children's clothing featuring zippers. The campaign praised zippers for promoting self-reliance in young children by making it possible for them to dress in self-help clothing. The zipper beat the button in the 1937 in the "Battle of the Fly," when French fashion designers raved over zippers in men's trousers. Esquire magazine declared the zipper the "Newest Tailoring Idea for Men" and among the zippered fly's many virtues was that it would exclude "The Possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray." Obviously, the new zippered trouser owners had not yet discovered the experience
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If you meant that the zipper misses out locking in the two end in patches, it could be because the assembly got a bit loose. Overuse or could have got pulled apart accidentally. \n\nA solution to this is :  Try pressing together with cutting pliers, the moving part holding the two ends, or if no plier is available,lightly tapping the head.\n\nIf its a metal zipper, this will work. If its nylon, chances are slimmer.\n\nChange the zipper as soon as you can.
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Yellow is just another shade of green!!!!\n\nJK - yellow means slow down, and stop if possible to me.  Not sure how the driver's manual technically defines it, but you could look it there.\n\nP.S. Your mom was right.....she stopped because she had the ability to.
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You are thinking of Squirrel Nut Zippers.  Don't lie to yourself, you really like 'em.