variants
also catty-corner
or catercorner
or kitty-cornered
or catty-cornered
or catercornered
as in diagonally
in a line or direction running from corner to corner
walked kitty-corner across the quadrangle to the registration booth
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Recent Examples of kitty-corner
The store, which is kitty-corner to an Albertsons supermarket, was built by Safeway in 1950 with a Marina-style rounded roof.
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Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2025
The low-income apartments will sit kitty-corner to the Townes at Kennedy-King, a recent townhome development by Onyx+East along the growing 22nd Street corridor.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 18 Aug. 2025
Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2025
The low-income apartments will sit kitty-corner to the Townes at Kennedy-King, a recent townhome development by Onyx+East along the growing 22nd Street corridor.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kitty-corner
Adverb
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This one, too, is tricked out with tech for rotating 360 degrees on the spot and crab walking diagonally, all thanks to the proprietary e4 Platform (quad-motor independent torque vectoring) and the DiSus-P intelligent hydraulic body control system.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Sep. 2025
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The external obliques run diagonally from your lower ribs down toward your opposite hip, while the internal obliques sit underneath with fibers running diagonally upward from your pelvis toward your ribs.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Move across and then down the glass, dipping the sponge or cloth back in the water to clean it as needed.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
23 Sep. 2025
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Then tiny balls of solder, some only tens of micrometers across, are attached to the chips.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Kitty-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitty-corner. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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