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DOGLEG
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected forms: doglegged , doglegging
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dogleg" is a kind of...):
golf hole; hole (one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("dogleg" is a kind of...):
angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)