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dog·leg (dôg′leg′)

noun

a sharp angle or bend like that formed by a dog's hind leg, as in a golf fairway

intransitive verb doglegged -·legged′, doglegging -·leg′·ging

to go or lie in one direction and then angle off in another

adjective

of, or having the form of, a dogleg
also doglegged dog′·leg′·ged (-leg′id, -legd′)

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dogleg Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • leave: A dogleg left with a sloping fairway that can propel the ball to the right.

Adjective modifier

  • slight: Go straight across crossroads ( slight dogleg ) into Priory Lane.

Modifies a noun

  • right: There are bunkers on both sides of the fairway on this dogleg right where the green slopes away on both sides.

Noun used with modifier

  • way: The Cotswold Way, Standish Wood After about 800m the route of the Cotswold Way doglegs to the left.
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