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zig verb- when faced with two courses of action, to take the wrong one US, 1948
Most commonly used in some variation of “I zigged when I should have zagged”. - He zigged when he should have zagged, that is he bet banker when he should have bet player and then switched when the shoe switched. — Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas, pp. 261–262, 1977
- to shoot down an enemy fighter plane US
- — American Speech, p. 125, Summer 1986: “The language of naval fighter pilots”
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