Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable)Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).

    Umgeher, Ausweicher

  2. (countable)A person full of tricks or street smarts.

    Schlawiner, Drückeberger

    ловкачlovkač

  3. (countable)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.

    Sprayhood

  4. (Australia, countable, slang)An advertising leaflet; a flyer.

  5. (Australia, US, dated, slang, uncountable)Bread.

More definitions
  • a shifty deceptive person
  • small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)

Examples

14 sentences
  1. You were a draft dodger, weren't you?

    Ти був ухиленцем, еге ж?

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  2. I know Tom was a draft dodger.

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  3. I know that Tom was a draft dodger.

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  4. Tom was a draft dodger.

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  5. The Dodgers lost to the Giants.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
person full of tricks or street smarts:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
one who dodges:
person full of tricks or street smarts:
nautical: companionway cover in a sailboat:

Forms

plural: dodgers
Singulardodger
Pluraldodgers

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
companionway cover:sprayhood
Close in meaning

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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