What's "zig zag?"?

Question

Some people say, "It's like a zig zag zig zag type of thing?"
What exactly are they trying to imply?

Answer 1

This is a zig-zag:

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Answer 2

zig zag is a line that goes back and forth. A soldier will run in a zig zag fashion to have a better chance of survival. You can also use a trim to put on clothes that is called rickrack and it is in a zigzag pattern. Best wishes!

Answer 3

Zig Zag is a brand of rolling papers.

Answer 4

Zig zag implies that you travel in a right to left, left to right direction like a grapevine pattern. Think of crossing your foot diagonally in front of your body, then moving your other foot behind you in in the same direction. You continue to criss cross until you reach your final destination.

Answer 5

A zig zag course is one where the direction of travel continuously changes from right to left , then right and left, on and on.
Used to be the course taken by ships during the war, to make it difficult for submarines to hit them with a torpedo.
People using that analogy mean, you don't stay on a straight course, but continuously change directions, making you unpredictable (which is scary to most!)

Answer 6

the only zig-zag i know is the name of rolling papers

Answer 7

zig zags are a type of rolling paper

Answer 8

laid back like rollin up a zig zag

Answer 9

probably something that goes back and forth, waxes and wanes, or something else like that... like when you run in a zig zag, you are running back and forth.

Answer 10

I watched a documentary programme years ago about the Spice Girls. The lyric is indeed meaningless.

Answer 11

maybe they are referring to something that there is no clear answer for. kind of like a grey area. not sure. just a guess.