dodger

Meaning

1. (countable) Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
2. (countable) A person full of tricks or street smarts.
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.
4. (Australia, countable, slang) An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
5. (Australia, US, dated, slang, uncountable) Bread.

Synonyms

trickster

corn dodger

corn dab

fox

🦊

slyboots

avoider

fly-by-night

haggler

impostor

phoney

rogue

sandwich

🥪

sharper

swindler

wangler

cunning fellow

corn cake

traunt

absentee

shunner

con artist

defaulter

defrauder

double-dealer

faker

Translations

pícaro

Schwindler

murri

astuta

garneu

graneua

picardiós

picardiosa

múrria

Sprayhood

αλεπού

αποφεύγων

υπεκφεύγων

renard

🦊

astut

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɒd͡ʒ.ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From dodge + -er.