Did you mayhaps mean zigzags?
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“He bounds across the garden, zig-zags and twists and sudden u-turns, like a lit firecracker in a tin.”
“Salon's Steve Kornacki does a fine job of following the erstwhile Massachusetts Governor's mind-bending zig-zags on abortion rights here.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Sigman: Pander-monium Breaks Out Among 2012 GOP Hopefuls
“Crackling comes from small branches; lightning with several zig-zags will produce a different clap from each section.”
“If the path of the lightning is relatively straight, there will be a single boom, but lightning with several zig-zags will produce a different clap from each section.”
“Or one of those high speed pursuits where the highway patrol zig-zags along the highway to keep all other cars in a safe zone?”
The Huffington Post: Todd Greene: Irene In New York and Natural Disaster Rubbernecking
“Regarding the execrable pact between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which shocked many former communist sympathizers into lives of anticommunism, Mr. Hobsbawm dismisses the "zig-zags and turns of Comintern and Soviet policy," specifically the "about-turn of 1939-41," which "need not detain us here.”
The Wall Street Journal: How a True Believer Keeps the Faith
“Notorious for its long, winding queue that zig-zags across the market, Chairman Bao loads up steamed and baked buns with red sesame chicken, crispy garlic tofu and tender pork belly $6.”
“Ms. Missoni is responsible for designing the interiors of each, outfitted with furniture by Eero Saarinen, Marcel Wanders and Arne Jacobsen, and featuring the line's dizzying zig-zags, stripes and flowers throughout, mostly done in black and white but with bursts of bright pinks, teals and purples.”
“The disappointing endingis such a pity because the rest of the book is a smoothly icy read, as one lurches around the zig-zags of the plot, skating wildly over the murky depths beneath.”
“Pick up your clothes, do your homework, stop drawing cheat notes on your arm, eat your vegetables, quit trying to make out the porn through the scrambled gray zig-zags lines.”
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Historical Military Terms of Interest
Many (if not all) of these terms were selected from A pocket dictionary, for military officers, containing a definition of all the tactical terms now in use, with other matter belonging to the art ...
zig-zags, yeoman, xerxes, xeiff, xenophon, worm, watch-word, windage, wheeling, wad-hock, wadding, volley and 242 more...
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chained_bear "trenches used in sieges, with several windings, so cut that the besieged are prevented from infilading the besiegers in their approaches." (citation in list description) Oct 9, 2008