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dodge English

Meaning dodge meaning

What does dodge mean?
Definitions in simple English

dodge Verb

— To dodge is to move quickly to avoid being hit. He had to dodge to the left so the ball missed him. — To dodge is to be clever and cunning to avoid questions. The President dodged questions about unemployment during the debate.

dodge Noun

— A dodge is a plan to trick or avoid. The investment plan was a dodge to avoid paying tax.

dodge

— verb make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid The child dodged the teacher's blow — verb move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course the pickpocket dodged through the crowd — noun a quick evasive movement — noun (= contrivance) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track — verb (= evade, skirt) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) He dodged the issue she skirted the problem They tend to evade their responsibilities he evaded the questions skillfully — noun a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

Synonyms dodge synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as dodge?

dodge English » English

evade avoid elude trick shirk duck sidestep parry circumvent avert steer clear of shun escape hide hedge contrivance tergiversate stratagem shift ruse prevaricate jink fudge evasion conceal veil twist slip skirt sidestop shuffle shroud shrink back scheme quibble put off pull away from move keep clear of keep away from jugglery get away game equivocate elusion dodging device chivvy artifice abscond

Topics dodge topics

What do people use dodge to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape

Conjugation dodge conjugation

How do you conjugate dodge?

dodge · verb

Examples dodge examples

How do I use dodge in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom didn't want to play dodge ball because he was tired.
Tom decided not to play dodge ball because he wasn't feeling well.
Don't dodge the question.
On his bicycle he can dodge through traffic with amazing speed.
How'd he dodge the draft?

Movie subtitles

Did you know he wanted to be a professional dodge ball player?
And that day in the woods when you taught us how to dodge shells?
I thought you came down here to dodge the bomb.
Dodge brothers, late '29.
We gotta find a dodge to get outta here.
Providing Col. Dodge's new town is worth speeding to reach.
By golly, Dodge, you know everybody in Kansas.
And now, it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you. the man who made this progress possible: Col. Dodge.
Dodge City.
Dodge City it is.
They must come to Dodge City from all over the world, don't they, Pop?
What's the use of trying to make an honest town of Dodge City?
There's no law west of Chicago, and west of Dodge City, no God.
I'll certainly be glad to hand them over to their uncle in Dodge.
Then there's the trifling affair with Pasqual in the morning I have no wish to dodge.
He's hoping they'll get through. if 48 cavalrymen can dodge about 1,000 Cheyenne.
So, you're goin' on the dodge, deserting' after gold.
Yeah. He's over in a church at 19th and Dodge.
Providing Colonel Dodge's new town is worth speeding to reach. You wait.
Dodge, you know everybody in Kansas.
Call it after the man who made it possible. Dodge City.
They come to Dodge City from all over the world, don't they?
Why try to make an honest town out of Dodge City? Surrett's crowd scares off the law-abiding settlers. They're all going on to Wichita and Kansas City.
Obey orders until we get to Dodge City.
Behave yourself, or you're gonna ride into Dodge City backwards on a mule.
It's three hours to Dodge. Understand?
Couldn't dodge it, I suppose?
We gotta find a dodge to get outta here. Be a good guy. Give me some tips.
In Dodge City, in Globe, in Tucson, in Lordsburg, all through the West.
Since when did you ever know me to dodge a fight?
It's a dodge.
That's the oldest dodge in the world.
Once, I got as far as Dodge City, Kansas, in a big, blue convertible that stopped by for gas.
The Dodge. I can't see.
Ellsworth, Wichita, now Dodge City.
I'll see you in Dodge City and thank you proper.
You can thank me properly by staying out of Dodge City.
Little out of place for Dodge City, wouldn't you say?

News and current affairs

The companies routinely bribe officials to gain oil leases, lie about output, evade taxes, and dodge responsibility for the environmental damage that they cause.
June 4 was the day of reckoning in Dodge City East.
Thus, the world economy may dodge yet another potential catastrophe.
Multinational companies have many more opportunities than before to dodge their fair and efficient share of taxation.
In China, for example, the manufacturers of pharmaceutical ingredients can dodge drug regulation by claiming that their products will be used for non-medical purposes.
You cannot dodge the call of history.
I tried to hide behind others and dodge greeting him in front of TV cameras and the press.
Like most Americans, China's leaders believe that the US will ultimately dodge the bullet of an outright default.
Despite a news blackout during the riots in Lhasa, for example, Chinese Internet users managed to dodge the country's censorship.
Prosecution officials also negligently incinerated personal effects of Srebrenica victims, as well as items discovered in Albania and other evidence, and then obfuscated to dodge a scandal.
Leung's tone-deafness to popular feeling revives one of the main issues that he managed to dodge during the election campaign.
In any case, as Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington observed, there are many imaginative ways in which a Tobin tax could be made harder to dodge.

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