Cryptic crossword clue
Langer’s article covers golf irons 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DAGS

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The straight part
We know that "irons" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case irons = dags.
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What does DAGS mean?

DAGS noun
  1. A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
  2. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
DAGS verb
  1. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
  2. To daggle or bemire.
DAGS noun
  1. A skewer.
  2. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
  3. A dagger; a poniard.
  4. A kind of large pistol.
  5. The unbranched antler of a young deer.
DAGS verb
  1. To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
  2. To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
DAGS noun
  1. One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
DAGS noun
  1. A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
DAGS noun
  1. A misty shower; dew.
DAGS verb
  1. To be misty; to drizzle.
DAGS noun
  1. A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
  2. Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
  3. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
  4. A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
  5. A man (derived from definition 2).
  6. A coward.
  7. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
  8. A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
  9. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
  10. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
  11. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
  12. The eighteenth Lenormand card.
  13. A hot dog.
  14. Underdog.
  15. (almost always in the plural) Foot.
  16. (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
  17. One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
  18. A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
DAGS noun
  1. Meat from a dog eaten as food.
  2. Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
  3. An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.

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