: 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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Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
That effort came on Pebble Beach’s par-5, dogleg-right 14th hole.
—Cam Inman, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2025
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
Its main difficulties are the dogleg that comes from the right of the fairway, as well as the pond and the bunker on the left and right of the green.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
That effort came on Pebble Beach’s par-5, dogleg-right 14th hole.
—Cam Inman, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2025
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 23 Apr. 2025.
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