zag

zag

[zag]
verb (used without object), zagged, zag·ging.
to move in one of the two directions followed in a zigzag course: First we zigged, then we zagged, trying to avoid the bull.

Origin:
1785–95; extracted from zigzag

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zag
1793, from zig-zag (q.v.).
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Zag is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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