dodger

dodg·er

 (dŏj′ər)

n.

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)

n

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]

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Thesaurus

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

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dodger

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

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Translations

finasseurfinassier

dodger

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

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dodger

n

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

(Naut) → Wetterschutz m

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