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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Adverb
  • If your home is very wide and has only a few inlets, open windows located diagonally to each other have the longest possible straight path for air flow, thereby increasing the potential of air circulation across the whole room.
    Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2025
  • Yamal has now scored pretty much the same goal in three consecutive games — the 17-year-old dribbles diagonally through the opposing defence, positions himself in front of the target and fires a shot into the top corner.
    Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Adverb
  • Very generally speaking, galaxies are tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of light-years across and have millions to several trillions of stars.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
  • The craft is about 3.2 feet across and weighs about 1,100 pounds.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 May 2025
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“Kitty-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitty-corner. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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