Definition of Dodge

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Definition of Dodge

Dodge

To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.

Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.

To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.

The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.

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Dodge Quotations

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
George H. W. Bush

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
Matt Damon

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.
Terry Bradshaw

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Stendhal

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
Jessica Savitch

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
Josiah Stamp

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.
Dustin Diamond

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.
Gordon Getty

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
Frank Miller

Dodge Translations

dodge in German is Trick, Winkelzug, ausweichen
dodge in Norwegian is smette unna
dodge in Spanish is regatear
dodge in Swedish is knep, knyck, kila undan

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