Usually means: Sentence leads reader toward misunderstanding.
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  1. garden-path: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. garden path: Collins English Dictionary
  3. garden-path: Wordnik
  4. garden path: Wiktionary
  5. garden-path, garden path: Dictionary.com
  6. Garden path: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. garden-path, garden path: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (garden path)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see garden, path.
noun:  Ellipsis of garden path sentence. [(linguistics) A sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly when first read, due to the ambiguity of a word or words.]
verb:  Alternative form of garden-path [(linguistics) To mislead with a garden path sentence.]

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