: crooked or bent like a dog's hind leg
a sharp dogleg bend in the fairway
1
a
: something having an abrupt angle
b
: a sharp bend (as in a road)
2
: a golf hole having an angled fairway
doglegged; doglegging; doglegs
: to proceed along a dogleg course
the single narrow street that doglegs through town—
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Noun
a sharp dogleg to the left
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Dennis Esser, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
The threats are numerous: soaring cliffs, towers of brittle ice, 8 percent grades, unexpected doglegs.
—Leath Tonino, Outside Online, 23 Feb. 2017
Nick Heil, Outside Online, 25 June 2013
Dorian doglegged north along the state’s Atlantic coast and barely tousled Floridians, but the storm’s costs for electric utilities were still significant as the price of living in the nation’s most hurricane-prone state.
—Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2019
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Noun
The golf course features many doglegs and brings water into play throughout.
—Dennis Esser, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
The threats are numerous: soaring cliffs, towers of brittle ice, 8 percent grades, unexpected doglegs.
—Leath Tonino, Outside Online, 23 Feb. 2017
Verb
In the days leading up to the storm’s landfall, weather nerds had been freaking out about its anticipated inland track (such systems typically dogleg back out to the Atlantic) and collision with an extratropical cyclone.
—Nick Heil, Outside Online, 25 June 2013
Dorian doglegged north along the state’s Atlantic coast and barely tousled Floridians, but the storm’s costs for electric utilities were still significant as the price of living in the nation’s most hurricane-prone state.
—Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2019
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“Dogleg.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dogleg. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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