Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that dodges or evades.
- noun A shifty, dishonest person; a trickster.
- noun A small printed handbill.
- noun Nautical A lightweight structure, as of canvas stretched over a frame, that partly screens a hatch or companionway from wind and spray.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dodges or evades; one who practises artful shifts or dodges.
- noun A small handbill distributed in the streets or other public places.
- noun Same as
corn-dodger .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun a member of the professional baseball team called the Dodgers. At one time the team was headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, when it was called the Borrooklyn Dodgers, but the franchise was transferred to Los Angeles.
- noun One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
- noun United States A small handbill.
- noun See
Corndodger .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
dodges . - noun nautical A small windscreen and cover device, to protect personnel from driving rain or weather.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)
- noun a shifty deceptive person
Etymologies
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Examples
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This coward chickenhawk draft dodger is bad news for any campaign.
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No mention of that being a "dodger" in those Selective Service Status interpretations.
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I think the term "dodger" is especially egregious when applied to people like Corey who actually served in Iraq, and chose not to go back.
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I object to the newspaper's use of the words "dodger" and "deserter", which is why I offer the two other links as well.
defector 2005
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I object to the newspaper's use of the words "dodger" and "deserter", which is why I offer the two other links as well.
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The next thing to do is to send to some reliable jobber for a bill of staple household sellers, with which you can mix hundreds of articles from your own stock; then send out a little circular ( "dodger") to the over-anxious inhabitants, telling them of
A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" William H. Maher
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This was rather ominous, and I spent some of my time trying to evade this "dodger," imagining that he was necessarily one of the guard attempting my capture.
My Adventures as a Spy Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899
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Presently, who should I see creeping round the corner of a neighbouring sandhill but my friend the "dodger"!
My Adventures as a Spy Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899
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Standing by a table, formed of a wide board resting on the heads of the barrels, I cut and handed to each a slice of meat and a "dodger" of the bread, and from Jenny's kettle also dipped out for each a cup of the coffee.
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He played as a "dodger," crafty players who flitted in unpredictable dashes running fast to elude tacklers, and when caught, writhed about to set themselves free.
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