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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.



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draft-dodging
to take high dodging about

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