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zig

[ zig ]

verb (used without object)

, zigged, zig·ging.
  1. to move in one of the two directions followed in a zigzag course:

    He zigged when he should have zagged.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of zig1

First recorded in 1785–95; extracted from zigzag
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Example Sentences

The undercover later returned to get his shirts and the manager, Jamshid Bahrami, presented him with the Zig-Zags.

But he also sees this zig-zag price movement compressing, and soon to break.

As the Silence walked on, I could see the grass waving in zig-zag curves across the river.

Then all this stopped and on the wet undergrowth again there was a movement like the zig-zag stripe of the tiger's skin.

About a mile off he saw two men coming slowly up by a zig-zag path toward the very point where he stood.

Those leaves were floating through the shadows and when the wind moved, others zig-zagged softly down to join them.

The sled began zig-zagging, twisting wildly as the shells popped on either side of it.

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