Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move in or follow a zigzag course.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The economic costs of this way of thinking are becoming more and more obvious, with each stock market dipsy-doodle, with each new set of unemployment numbers, in the growing gulf between the rich and the poor.
Laura Penny: The Cheapness That Is Not: Thoughts on the BP Spill Laura Penny 2010
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The economic costs of this way of thinking are becoming more and more obvious, with each stock market dipsy-doodle, with each new set of unemployment numbers, in the growing gulf between the rich and the poor.
Laura Penny: The Cheapness That Is Not: Thoughts on the BP Spill 2010
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Much more clever than the Hillary dipsy-doodle, where a supporter buys both ends of an option or commodity contract, gives you the one in the money, and eats the other one.
On David Remnick, Jack Cashill, and the authorship of “Dreams From My Father” 2010
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I don't have the hands to do a bunch of dipsy-doodle stuff. ''
USATODAY.com 2007
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Loners make good characters and one who keeps getting family members who just disappear on him, is either in a state of constant sadness or is a victim of dipsy-doodle writing.
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Kind of does a little dipsy-doodle over the next couple of days as it slowly makes its way into the north Atlantic.
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No, somehow "dipsy-doodle" doesn't sound substantial.
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The liberal blogosphere is so busy gushing over the PI endorsing dipsy-doodle darcy they probably won't even notice the Time endorsing McGavick.
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“Have you ever encountered the particularly dipsy-doodle joy of a newly married widow or widower?” she asks.
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The kid was a quarterback in college and set all kinds of passing records, but the Jets don't ever seem to let him pass... which means, the minute he lines up behind center, the defense knows it is going to be some kind of dipsy-doodle option play.
J - E - T - S, Jets! Jets! JETS!! grrm 2007
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