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Old 07-04-2008, 11:12 PM   #252
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Originally Posted by slayda View Post
How about
  • "dog eared" - condition a book gets into when many of its pages have had corners turned down
  • and "Dog leg" - when you take a short cut across a corner instead of going along the other two sides of a triangle
I think you are misusing dogleg.

Verb

to 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.

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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogleg...eg&redirect=no
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