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1. Wander from a direct or straight course
   - sidetrack, depart, digress
    
2. Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
   "Branches straggling out quite far"
   - sprawl

1. A wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons)
   "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers"

Derived forms: straggling, straggles, straggled

See also: straggler, straggly

Type of: deviate, distribute, divert, group, grouping, spread