Definitions
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- adjective US
catercorner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
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Examples
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About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps.
Molly Secours: When a 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday Molly Secours 2010
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About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps.
Molly Secours: When A 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday Molly Secours 2010
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About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps.
Molly Secours: When a 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday Molly Secours 2010
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About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps.
Molly Secours: When a 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday Molly Secours 2010
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About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps.
Molly Secours: When a 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday Molly Secours 2010
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About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps.
Molly Secours: When A 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday Molly Secours 2010
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A few moments later, down in that overheated basement, feeling the detectives breathing down their necks, the techs pick her up again sitting on a wooden bench about ten feet past the corner of Crosby and Prince, catty-cornered from the office building she left, a few steps past the entrance to Savoy.
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About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps.
Molly Secours: When a 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday Molly Secours 2010
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About 10 feet away, a four-door SUV pulled in and parked catty-cornered to one of the gas pumps.
Molly Secours: When a 'Bad White People Day' Is Just Another Tuesday Molly Secours 2010
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REGAN, MADISON, and SPENCER are sprawled catty-cornered in the main seating area of the lounge.
Fashionista Micol Ostow 2009
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