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dodger

[doj-er] / ˈdɒdʒ ər /




NOUN
handbill
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NOUN
hush puppy
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NOUN
malingerer
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I wear my dodger hat and sit in the same chair for every dodger game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

The fare dodger recorded herself talking about travelling in Derby, Tamworth and Burton-upon-Trent.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023

Though he was sometimes labeled a draft dodger, he was very much the opposite.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

Moreover, as Risen documents, it established this son of a wealthy Civil War draft dodger as the embodiment of America’s emergence as a world power.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2019

When field marshals picked their men I was snapped up 'cause I was an ace dodger and tree climber.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

ScotRail has started charging ticket dodgers a minimum £10 fare in a bid to crack down on people deliberately boarding a train without paying.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Social media was replete with jokes and memes about fleeing influencers, tax dodgers and crypto bros.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

The mass demonstration follows a recent crackdown on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, with thousands of call-up notices ignored in recent months and several deserters imprisoned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

Indeed, pardons of that kind have been issued by the tens of thousands to former rebels, insurrectionaries, draft dodgers, or deserters after nearly every American domestic or foreign conflict.

From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2024

I knew a lot of draft dodgers who had spent time hiding out in Canada.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos




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