Meaning of dogleg In English

• 0 a sharp bend, especially in a road or on a golf course:

  • The driver lost control as he tried to negotiate a dogleg on a steep mountain road.

  • The 17th hole is a left-hand dog-leg.

• 1 (of a route) bending sharply, especially in a road or on a golf course:

  • We had to follow a dog-leg diversion around the roadworks.

  • The next hole is a dogleg right.

• 2 to take a route that bends sharply:

  • The course doglegs right and then left.

  • The highway dog-legs right to cross the river