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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

L, V-shaped, Y-shaped, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, akimbo, alternate, angle, angle off, angular, apex, avoidance, avoiding reaction, back and fill, battledore and shuttlecock, bend, bendy, bent, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, branch, branching off, cant, chevron, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, circuitousness, circumvention, coin, come and go, corner, cornered, crank, crankiness, crankle, crankled, crook, crooked, crookedness, crotched, crotchet, curve, curvy, declination, defense mechanism, deflect, deflection, departing, departure, desultory, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviate, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, diffract, diffuse, digression, digressive, discursion, discursive, disperse, distort, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dodge, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, duck, ebb and flow, elbow, ell, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, errant, errantry, erratic, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation, flexuosity, flexuous, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fork, forked, furcal, furcate, furcation, geniculate, geniculated, getting around, hairpin, hitch and hike, hook, hooked, indirect, indirection, inflection, jagged, jink, knee, knee-shaped, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nook, obliquity, out-of-the-way, pass and repass, pererration, planetary, point, pointed, prevention, pull, quoin, rambling, reciprocate, refract, refraining, ride and tie, roving, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scatter, seesaw, serpentine, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shunning, shunting off, shuttle, shuttlecock, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, skew, slant, slip, snaky, stagger, staggered, stray, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swing, swinging, switchback, tack, teeter, teeter-totter, the runaround, to-and-fro, turn, turning, twist, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, variation, veer, veering, vertex, wandering, warp, wax and wane, wibble-wabble, wigwag, winding, yaw, zag, zig, zigzaggery, zigzaggy, zigzagways

Dictionary Results for zigzag:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

zigzag
    adv 1: in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew
           zigzag across the blue sky"
    adj 1: having short sharp turns or angles [syn: zigzag, zig-
           zag]
    n 1: an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in
         alternating directions [syn: zigzag, zig, zag]
    v 1: travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the
         countryside" [syn: zigzag, crank]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, n. [F. zigzag, G. zickzack, from zacke,
   zacken, a dentil, tooth. Cf. Tack a small nail.]
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   1. Something that has short turns or angles.
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            The fanatics going straight forward and openly, the
            politicians by the surer mode of zigzag. --Burke.
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   2. (Arch.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or
      series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
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   3. (Fort.) See Boyau.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, a.
   Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an
   onward course.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Zigzagged; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Zigzagging.]
   To form with short turns.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, v. i.
   To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
   --R. Browning.
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6. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)

ZIGZAG, v.t.  To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one
carrying the white man's burden.  (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an
Icelandic word of unknown meaning.)

    He zedjagged so uncomen wyde
    Thet non coude pas on eyder syde;
    So, to com saufly thruh, I been
    Constreynet for to doodge betwene.
                                                               Munwele

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