dodge

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dodge/dɒʤ/

▶verb

• 1 avoid by a sudden quick movement.

  ■ move quickly to one side or out of the way.

  ■ cunningly avoid doing or paying.

• 2 (often as noun dodging) Photography expose (one area of a print) less than the rest during processing or enlarging.

• 3 Bell-ringing (of a bell in change-ringing) move one place contrary to the normal sequence, and then back again in the following round.

▶noun

• 1 an act or instance of dodging.

• 2 informal a cunning trick, especially one used to avoid something.

– origin C16 (in the senses ‘dither’ and ‘haggle’): of unknown origin.