Definition of "dodge"

dodge

/dɒd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged
1. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
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  But that was only the start, because the Fletchers - (obviously) carrying two torpedo launchers - were only launching half-salvos, so one full wave of torpedoes had driven off the cruisers after having savaged the destroyers, aaand then it was a case of, well, here come twenty-five destroyers, here comes[sic] two hundred and fifty torpedoes, hello Japanese battleships, dodge this!
  2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 26:48 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎, archived from the original on 20 July 2022
2. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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  The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
  2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎
3. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
4. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
5. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  Quotations
  "I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would."
  1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, II.iii.7
  A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.
  1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798
  Miss Griffin screamed after me, the faithless Vizier ran after me, and the boy at the turnpike dodged me into a corner, like a sheep, and cut me off.
  1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Ghost in Master B’s Room”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C. Whiting, […], page 30
6. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.
noun
plural dodges
1. An act of dodging.
2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
  Quotations
  The dodges of women beat all comprehension; and I am sure she wouldn’t let the lad off so easily, if she had not some other scheme on hand.
  1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 12, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850
  “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
  1869, Punch, volume 57, page 257
  He knows everybody, and is up to all the dodges of editorial management and newspaper cliques.
  1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, page 14
3. (slang) A line of work.
  Quotations
  In the marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off.
  1992, Time, volume 140, numbers 1-9, page 74
  Through a series of unconventional circumstances, some my fault, Jackie had found herself working both civil and criminal sides of the real estate dodge, which put her among a rare breed of attorney […]
  2009, Chris Knopf, Head Wounds, page 233
adjective
comparative more dodge, superlative most dodge
1. (Australia, Britain, colloquial) Dodgy.

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