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doglegging

doglegging is the present participle and gerund of dogleg.

Meaning of dogleg

Verb

dogleg (third-person singular simple present doglegs, present participle doglegging, simple past and past participle doglegged)

  1. (intransitive) To bend in the shape of the hind leg of a dog, especially to turn and then turn back sharply to the original direction.
    • When the causeway doglegs and all of a sudden you spot sixteen roller coasters in the same place, it can take your breath away.2004 August 30, The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 2

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Questions about doglegging

What is doglegging the present participle and gerund of?
Doglegging is the present participle and gerund of dogleg.

Words near doglegging in the dictionary

  1. dogkeeper
  2. dogkeepers
  3. dogkind
  4. dogleg
  5. doglegged
  6. doglegging
  7. doglegs
  8. dogless
  9. doglessly
  10. doglessness
  11. doglet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doglegging (page history and authors); dogleg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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