Definition of "dogleg" [dogleg]

• Something that has a sharp bend, especially a road or route that bends abruptly. (noun)
• A sharp bend or turn: Make a dogleg at the fire station and continue south. (noun)
• Sports A golf hole in which the fairway is abruptly angled. (noun)
• To make a sharp bend or turn: The street doglegs to the left. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "No. 5, 555 yards, par 5: This dogleg-right par 5 is reachable in two shots by the longest hitters after carrying the fairway bunker on the inside of the dogleg from the tee."
• "Now the dogleg was a trigger, and the right angle at the other end sat firmly on the barrel plunger, preventing it from sliding forward."
• "A dogleg might be a boomerang-shaped piece of ground, a dogleg fence a zigzag of interlaced horizontal logs."