Definitions for zigzag

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zigzag zig·zag

Spelling: [zig-zag]

IPA: /ˈzɪgˌzæg/

Zigzag is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 26 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in zigzag (aggizz).

Definitions for zigzag

noun

1. a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
2. one of a series of such turns, as in a line or path.

adverb

1. with frequent sharp turns from side to side; in a zigzag manner:

adjective

1. proceeding or formed in a zigzag:

verb (used with object)

1. to make (something) zigzag, as in form or course; move or maneuver (something) in a zigzag direction:

verb (used without object)

1. to proceed in a zigzag line or course.

Origin of zigzag

1705-15; French; replacing earlier ziczac French German zickzack, gradational compound based on Zacke tack¹

Examples for zigzag

And there she was, waiting for them in the wet, at the first turn of the zigzag.

"I can see the zigzag road leading up to the Hermitage," said Rosie.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Where the drawing is white, cover the page with zigzag lines.

The lines of wall, floor and ceiling were strangely off proportion, zigzag, unrelated.

We had to grope our way as well as we could between the zigzag fences.

This was built in zigzag shape, so that a flanking fire could be kept up from it.

Carmena dropped it at his feet and began to zigzag down the mesa side.

The first was christened by the great etiquette guru Emily Post as “zigzag” eating.

We should never have been able to ascend the hill without going in zigzag.