Home › Words › Z › zigzaggerzigzaggerzigzagger means an attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.EtymologyFrom zigzag + -er.nounAn attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.e.g.“Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment.” — 1942, The Chemistry leaflet:Someone who zigzags; a person who makes rapid changes of direction, especially (figuratively) in opinion, policy etc.e.g.“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” — 2005, Before the fall: an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).