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Dodger

//ˈdɑ.d͡ʒɚ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving). countable
  2. 2
    A member of the Dodgers US professional baseball team, either before or after they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
  3. 3
    small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) wordnet
  4. 4
    A person full of tricks or street smarts. countable
  5. 5
    a shifty deceptive person wordnet
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  1. 6
    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. countable
  2. 7
    An advertising leaflet; a flyer. Australia, countable, slang
  3. 8
    Bread. Australia, US, dated, slang, uncountable

Etymology

From dodge + -er.

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