Meaning of zigzagger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.
2. Someone who zigzags; a person who makes rapid changes of direction, especially (figuratively) in opinion, policy etc.

Examples

“Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment.”

“If a woman had the finest conventional sewing machine with all the attachments ever made, she could not do one tenth of the work that can be done on a modern zigzagger.”

“That is what has long worried many people about Nixon: they saw him as the political man, the born trimmer, the zigzagger and flipflopper, the constantly moving target”

“As a self-avowed 'zigzagger' who works back and forth between historical particularities and sociological categories,”

“In the view of Greenberg and his colleagues, Clinton […] was a zigzagger who tailored his views to suit voters.”

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