zigzagger

Noun

zigzagger (plural zigzaggers)

1. An attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.
   • Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment.1942, The Chemistry leaflet
   • 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.1954, Kiplinger's Personal Finance
2. Someone who zigzags; a person who makes rapid changes of direction, especially (figuratively) in opinion, policy etc.
   • 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 target2005, Before the fall: an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House
   • As a self-avowed 'zigzagger' who works back and forth between historical particularities and sociological categories,2006, John A. Hall, Ralph Schroeder, An anatomy of power: the social theory of Michael Mann