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Zelig definition

Zel·ig (zelig)

noun

  1. a person, typically an ordinary, unimportant person, who seems to turn up with surprising or unaccountable frequency in a variety of settings
  2. any highly adaptable, opportunistic person

Etymology: after Leonard Zelig, title character of a 1983 film

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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