Concept cluster: Activities > Catty-corner or kitty-corner
n
(archaic) Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.
adv
Alternative form of round and round [In a repeated circular motion.]
adv
(US) Diagonally.
adv
(UK dialect, US) Diagonally.
adj
(UK dialect, obsolete) Uneven, not square, as mislaid stones or people with a limping gait.
adv
Alternative form of cater-corner [(US, Canada) Diagonally across from.]
adj
(US, Canada) Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from one another.
adv
(US, Canada) Alternative form of catty-corner [(US, Canada) Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from.]
adj
Synonym of cater-corner (“diagonal to, not directly across from nor adjacent to”).
adj
(medicine) Round or ring-shaped, particularly with distinct margins forming some sort of motive; annular.
adj
Of a long and winding route.
n
(often humorous) A roundabout route or process
adj
Alternative form of kitty-corner
adv
(US, Canadian prairies) Cater-corner: located diagonally in relation to something, especially across an intersection.
adj
Alternative form of kitty-corner
adv
(archaic, idiomatic) Very close to each other.

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