Usually means: Modifier that lacks clear connection.
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  1. dangling modifier: Vocabulary.com
  2. dangling modifier: Wiktionary
  3. dangling modifier: Dictionary.com
  4. Dangling modifier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. dangling modifier: Rhymezone
  6. dangling modifier: FreeDictionary.org
  7. dangling modifier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. dangling modifier: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dangling modifier: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dangling modifier: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dangling_modifiers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dangling modifier)

noun:  (grammar) A word or clause that qualifies another word or clause ambiguously, possibly causing confusion with regard to the intended meaning.

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