variants also catty-corner or catercorner or kitty-cornered or catty-cornered or catercornered
as in diagonally
in a line or direction running from corner to corner walked kitty-corner across the quadrangle to the registration booth

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Adverb
  • Slightly bigger, at 7.4 inches measured diagonally (compared with the 7-inch Steam Deck display), the new system swaps the IPS panel for an OLED one.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 11 June 2025
  • Arbuckle watched as the group marched diagonally across an intersection on Main Street.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
Adverb
  • Most near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids that range in size from about 10 feet to nearly 25 miles across.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
  • On a 13-foot-tall wall almost 40 feet across, a kaleidoscope of metal butterflies are now in flight, fluttering around a centerpiece painting on aluminum metal.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2025
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“Kitty-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitty-corner. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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