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DODGER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)

Synonyms:

corn dab; corn dodger; dodger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("dodger" is a kind of...):

cornbread (bread made primarily of cornmeal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A shifty deceptive person

Synonyms:

dodger; fox; slyboots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("dodger" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Derivation:

dodge (avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues))

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