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zig-zag

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1. zig-zag - Noun

2. zig-zag - Adjective

3. zig-zag - Verb

4. zig-zag - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

having short sharp turns or angles

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I apologize if I've interrupted some exceptionally demanding hippie task, like trying to remember where the glue is on the Zig-Zag paper, but it seems we have yet another problem, not unconnected with this fatality of yours for introducing disaster into every life you touch, however glancingly. Thomas Pynchon

The sea dancing, it's zig-zag movements and contrasting silver and emerald, evokes within my plastic sensibility the distant vision of a dancer covered in a sparkling sequins in her world of light, noise and sound. Therefore 'Sea = dancer' [= title of a painting he made in 1914]. Gino Severini

As one moved out from the central skyscrapers, smaller low-story, zig-zag apartment blocks (set far back from the street amid green space) housed the inhabitants. Source: Internet

Carve the top of the pumpkin with a zig-zag edge, hollow out, and carve a traditional jack-o-lantern face on it. Source: Internet

A skew zig-zag hexagon has vertices alternating between two parallel planes. Source: Internet

It had zig-zag trenches, miles of barbed wire and many machine-gun nests (some embedded in tree trunks). Source: Internet

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