: 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, 14 Aug. 2024
The 396-yard, dogleg right around a marsh was statistically the toughest hole on the course, with a stroke average of 4.43 and only 24 birdies (and 41 double bogeys or worse) in 552 total rounds.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 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
The doglegs and water in play will demand the players pay attention off the tee, but the small greens will reward those players who lead the field in proximity to the hole on approach shots.
—Dennis Esser, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
The 396-yard, dogleg right around a marsh was statistically the toughest hole on the course, with a stroke average of 4.43 and only 24 birdies (and 41 double bogeys or worse) in 552 total rounds.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 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 19 Jul. 2025.
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