dodg·er

(dŏj′ər)

1. One that dodges or evades: a skilled dodger of reporters' questions.

2. A shifty, dishonest person; a trickster.

3. A small printed handbill.

4. Nautical A lightweight structure, as of canvas stretched over a frame, that partly screens a hatch or companionway from wind and spray.

5. Chiefly Southern Atlantic US See corn dodger.

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dodger

(ˈdɒdʒə)

1. a person who evades or shirks

2. a shifty dishonest person

3. (Nautical Terms) a canvas shelter, mounted on a ship's bridge or over the companionway of a sailing yacht to protect the helmsman from bad weather

4. (Historical Terms) archaic US and Austral a handbill

5. (Cookery) informal Austral food, esp bread

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dodg•er

(ˈdɒdʒ ər)

n.

1. a person who dodges.

2. a shifty person, esp. one who persistently evades a responsibility, as specified: tax dodger.

3. a small handbill; throwaway.

[1560–70]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	dodger - a shifty deceptive person slyboots, fox beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
	2.	dodger - small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) corn dab, corn dodger cornbread - bread made primarily of cornmeal

dodger

noun evader, avoider, abstainer, sidestepper, bilker a crackdown on tax dodgers

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Translations

finasseur finassier

dodger

[ˈdɒdʒəʳ] N (= trickster) → tunante/a m/f, gandul mf

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dodger

(= trickster) → Schlawiner m (inf) ? artful

(Naut) → Wetterschutz m

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Dawkin's appearance did not say a vast deal in favour of the comforts which his patron's interest obtained for those whom he took under his protection; but, as he had a rather flightly and dissolute mode of conversing, and furthermore avowed that among his intimate friends he was better known by the sobriquet of 'The Artful Dodger,' Oliver concluded that, being of a dissipated and careless turn, the moral precepts of his benefactor had hitherto been thrown away upon him.

John's Road; struck down the small street which terminates at Sadler's Wells Theatre; through Exmouth Street and Coppice Row; down the little court by the side of the workhouse; across the classic ground which once bore the name of Hockley-in-the-Hole; thence into Little Saffron Hill; and so into Saffron Hill the Great: along which the Dodger scudded at a rapid pace, directing Oliver to follow close at his heels.

'Now, then!' cried a voice from below, in reply to a whistle from the Dodger.

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'You can't be a gallivanting dodger,' said Fledgeby.

I shouldn't object to your baulking either of the pair, dodger, for they are both conceited enough; but that one is as cool a customer as ever I met with.

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The quarter to five has struck, and the play slackens for a minute before goal; but there is Crew, the artful dodger, driving the ball in behind our goal, on the island side, where our quarters are weakest.

Then the boys who are bending and watching on the outside, mark them: they are most useful players, the dodgers, who seize on the ball the moment it rolls out from amongst the chargers, and away with it across to the opposite goal.

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By-and-by he says: 'Was that you talking just now in the port alleyway?' 'Yes, sir.' 'With the third engineer?' 'Yes, sir.' He walks off to starboard, and sits under the dodger on a little campstool of his, and for half an hour perhaps he makes no sound, except that I heard him sneeze once.

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Captain MacElrath was a small man, just comfortably able to peep over the canvas dodger of the bridge.

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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 and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?

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The socialist press of the city jubilantly exploited this utterance, scattering it broadcast over San Francisco in tens of thousands of paper dodgers. And the journalists, stung to the quick, retaliated with the only means in their power-printer's ink abuse.

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Her corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention, was a sublime mystery to all less practised compounders; and she would shake her fat sides with honest pride and merriment, as she would narrate the fruitless efforts that one and another of her compeers had made to attain to her elevation.

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