dodger

UK /ˈdɒd͡ʒ.ə(ɹ)/ US /ˈdɑ.d͡ʒɚ/

noun 6

Definitions

noun

Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).

A person full of tricks or street smarts.

A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.

An advertising leaflet; a flyer.

Bread.

noun

A member of the Dodgers US professional baseball team, either before or after they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

Collocations

ADJ.

artful

VERB + DODGER

draft

ADV.

always, such

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a shifty deceptive person

fox
slyboots

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

artful dodger

A crafty person who commits minor crimes or behaves in a rather unscrupulous manner.

Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men a

Example Bank

Tom is a draft dodger.

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You were a draft dodger, weren't you?

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I know that Tom was a draft dodger.

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I know Tom was a draft dodger.

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Tom is such an artful dodger that he always finds a way to get out of trouble.

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Tom was a draft dodger.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, dodger is marked as slang, dated, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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