A History Lesson Wrote:
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> Ralph Pootawn Wrote:
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> > A History Lesson Wrote:
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> > > A little history lesson here. Zipper heads
> and
> > > gooks are names for the Vietnamese. These
> > names
> > > came from the Vietnam ware. Zipper heads
> came
> > > about when a soldier would shoot at them with
> > an
> > > automatic weapon and the weapon would slowly
> > rise
> > > while shooting. This would produce a "zipper
> > > like" pattern from the bullet strikes.
> >
> > Wrong. It's from US troops driving over their
> > bodies in their Jeeps, with the tire tread
> leaving
> > marks on their heads that resembled zippers.
>
> From Urban Dictionary:
>
> "Used during vietnam, Charlie was coined
> zipperheads because of the way a head looked after
> it had been hit with a high powered automatic
> weapon. The the typical rising machine gun would
> cause a face wound that looked like an open zipper
> on the face of some one from the viet kong."
>
>
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zip
> per%20Head
Ralph is right. Anyone can write anything on Urban Dictionary, and I recommend checking out "Wet Randy". But "zipperhead" came from the Korean War when U.S. soldiers would run over the corpses of Korean soldiers with their Jeeps. The tires would leave a zipper-like pattern on their faces.