: 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—
Russ Leadabrand
Russ LeadabrandExamples of dogleg in a Sentence
Noun
a sharp dogleg to the left
Recent Examples on the WebBob Spear, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2024
Facing a daunting dogleg to the right off the tee, Pelzar launched a drive over the trees, cutting the dogleg.
—Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
Lin, 26-year-old from Guangzhou, China, reached the putting surface in two shots on the 540-yard dogleg left and holed a 10-foot putt.
—Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
The dogleg pattern allows easier shifting from second to third and back without having to slide the shifter sideways.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2020
Moments prior, Newgarden and O’Ward were bumping wheels coming through the front straight dogleg in the makings of a finish that had looked so unlikely an hour prior.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
Just after the pair completed Lap 247, O’Ward inched ahead on the front stretch dogleg.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2023
But this ain't no dogleg, dog.
—Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 30 July 2022
This transformation took the center’s dogleg plan and squared it off, adding another million square feet of space.
—Dallas News, 27 July 2022
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
The par-5 18th plays 597, doglegs right and features the bigger-than-ever lake over which pros will have to fly their approach shots to reach the green in two.
—Tad Reeve, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
Rather than doglegging, these startling twists come back around on their stories, deepening their mystery.
—Gabe Habash, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
Suddenly, downtown’s grand old shopping district that doglegged from Houston Street to Joske’s on Alamo Plaza was looking old-fashioned, despite the convenient bus that shuttled customers to stores for just 5 cents.
—From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Jan. 2018
Current projections suggest that Hurricane Irma will dogleg right toward Florida this weekend, putting the state’s lengthy shoreline squarely in its path.
—Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
Finally, there is the challenge of the route itself, which juts and weaves and doglegs with exhausting regularity.
—Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2016
Noun
McIlroy and his caddie trooped down the hill and into the tree on the dogleg only to be directed to his ball — at the edge of the crosswalk at the bottom of the hill.
—Bob Spear, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2024
Facing a daunting dogleg to the right off the tee, Pelzar launched a drive over the trees, cutting the dogleg.
—Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
Lin, 26-year-old from Guangzhou, China, reached the putting surface in two shots on the 540-yard dogleg left and holed a 10-foot putt.
—Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
The dogleg pattern allows easier shifting from second to third and back without having to slide the shifter sideways.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2020
Moments prior, Newgarden and O’Ward were bumping wheels coming through the front straight dogleg in the makings of a finish that had looked so unlikely an hour prior.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
Just after the pair completed Lap 247, O’Ward inched ahead on the front stretch dogleg.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2023
But this ain't no dogleg, dog.
—Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 30 July 2022
This transformation took the center’s dogleg plan and squared it off, adding another million square feet of space.
—Dallas News, 27 July 2022
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
The par-5 18th plays 597, doglegs right and features the bigger-than-ever lake over which pros will have to fly their approach shots to reach the green in two.
—Tad Reeve, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
Rather than doglegging, these startling twists come back around on their stories, deepening their mystery.
—Gabe Habash, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
Suddenly, downtown’s grand old shopping district that doglegged from Houston Street to Joske’s on Alamo Plaza was looking old-fashioned, despite the convenient bus that shuttled customers to stores for just 5 cents.
—From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Jan. 2018
Current projections suggest that Hurricane Irma will dogleg right toward Florida this weekend, putting the state’s lengthy shoreline squarely in its path.
—Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
Finally, there is the challenge of the route itself, which juts and weaves and doglegs with exhausting regularity.
—Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2016
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