dodger
Someone who dodgesSomeone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
5 senses(countable)Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
Umgeher, Ausweicher
(countable)A person full of tricks or street smarts.
Schlawiner, Drückeberger
ловкачlovkač
(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
(Australia, countable, slang)An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
(Australia, US, dated, slang, uncountable)Bread.
- a shifty deceptive person
- small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)
Examples
14 sentencesYou were a draft dodger, weren't you?
Ти був ухиленцем, еге ж? — deniko
I know Tom was a draft dodger.
I know that Tom was a draft dodger.
Tom was a draft dodger.
The Dodgers lost to the Giants.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 3
Forms
plural: dodgersSynonyms
5 synonymsWord family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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