dogleg

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  1. noun Something that has a sharp bend, especially a road or route that bends abruptly.
  2. noun A sharp bend or turn: Make a dogleg at the fire station and continue south.
  3. noun Sports A golf hole in which the fairway is abruptly angled.
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  • The west-east part of the dogleg was some kind of a major county road. —  One Shot by Lee Child
  • He stepped past the foyer, took a dogleg, and entered the darkened room. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • The corridor made a dogleg, then ended in a door with a label stenciled in red ENGINEERING ONLY She grasped the handle. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • The trail took a sharp dogleg, the streambed falling away, and a recent rockslide hid what was around the corner. —  AHMM, October 2006
  • Harrington's heartache began when his tee shot on the dogleg-left second hole found a sunken area deep in the woods left of the fairway, a foot from a tree root at the bottom of a slope.
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