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  • noun Alternative form of doggy paddle.

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Examples

  •  It was an effort, but before long she could manage an awkward breaststroke and a functional doggy-paddle on her own.

    Marine Life 2010

  • Although I am still trying to work out what Geralt, Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher of Rivia, is doing taking a doggy-paddle on the front cover.

    Tome of the Undergates by Sam Sykes Adam Whitehead 2009

  • The ensuing sticky puddle was so enormous that an innocent bystander named Max Keeping quite literally had to doggy-paddle through it in order not to drown.

    Industrial Cream Puff Accident Maims 1, Shocks All. Jay 2007

  • The ensuing sticky puddle was so enormous that an innocent bystander named Max Keeping quite literally had to doggy-paddle through it in order not to drown.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Jay 2007

  • In an awkward swimming motion, like a child learning to doggy-paddle, he reached the chariot before it disappeared completely.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • She said she pictured herself emerging from the water onto the beach and vowed to doggy-paddle there, if that was what it took.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • She said she pictured herself emerging from the water onto the beach and vowed to doggy-paddle there, if that was what it took.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Man and mutso wade and doggy-paddle through a flooded street of Durazno, Uruguay.

    SFGate: Top News Stories SF Gate Staff 2010

  • Man and mutso wade and doggy-paddle through a flooded street of Durazno, Uruguay.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • David Ng in the City Pages: "Delving far beyond where most art-house programmers dare to doggy-paddle, the fourth annual"

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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