zigzagger

English

Noun

zigzagger (plural zigzaggers)

1. An attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.
   • 1942 The Chemistry leaflet

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

   • 1954 Kiplinger's Personal Finance

     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.

2. Someone or something that zigzags (moves in a zigzag direction)
   • 2005 William Safire - Before the fall: an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House

     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

   • 2006 John A. Hall, Ralph Schroeder - An anatomy of power: the social theory of Michael Mann

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