A dodger is someone who avoids doing a duty or paying a charge, for example paying taxes or for train travel.
...tax dodgers who hide their interest earnings.
...a crackdown on fare dodgers.
Synonyms: evader, avoider, abstainer, sidestepper More Synonyms of dodger
2. See also draft dodger
dodger in British English
(ˈdɒdʒə)
noun
1.
a person who evades or shirks
2.
a shifty dishonest person
3.
a canvas shelter, mounted on a ship's bridge or over the companionway of a sailing yacht to protect the helmsman from bad weather
4. archaic, US and Australian
a handbill
5. Australian informal
food, esp bread
dodger in American English
(ˈdɑdʒər)
noun
1.
a person who dodges
2.
a tricky, dishonest person; shifty rascal
3.
corndodger
4. US
a small handbill
5. Photography
a device for dodging
see also dodge (sense 6)
Examples of 'dodger' in a sentence
dodger
Billions of pounds has not been collected from the biggest tax dodgers.
The Sun (2016)
The main aim is to secure a big international push against tax dodgers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Critics said he was a hypocrite for condemning tax dodgers while trying to reduce his inheritance tax bill.
The Sun (2013)
The officers were checking for fare dodgers at a bus stop when they spotted a man due for recall to jail.
The Sun (2010)
Well, two more tax dodgers makes no difference.
The Sun (2015)
The Chancellor will also clamp down on millionaire tax dodgers by sealing lucrative stamp duty loopholes.
The Sun (2012)
No. Police were swooping on fare dodgers.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Or Swiss tax dodgers are us?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Instead they defended tax dodgers.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It couldn't be that she gets a bonus for catching so-called fare dodgers could it?
The Sun (2009)
Alongside shameless fare dodgers, rail companies penalise many people who have been unable to buy tickets because of long queues or closed tills or machines.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
There will be a clampdown on high pay, another new levy on the wealthy and an army of new inspectors to catch rich tax dodgers.
The Sun (2011)
Today such footballing artful dodgers can collectively become a team's 12th man.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
RICH tax dodgers are to be targeted in a Government crackdown, ministers will pledge today.
The Sun (2012)
In other languages
dodger
British English: dodger NOUN
A dodger is someone who avoids doing a duty or paying a charge.
...tax dodgers who hide their interest earnings.
American English: dodger
Brazilian Portuguese: evasor
Chinese: 闪躲者
European Spanish: evasor
French: fraudeur
German: Schwindler
Italian: chi si sottrae a un dovere
Japanese: 不法に逃れる人
Korean: 기피자
European Portuguese: evasor
Latin American Spanish: evasor
All related terms of 'dodger'
fare-dodger
a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
coffin dodger
an old person
draft dodger
A draft dodger is someone who avoids joining the armed forces when normally they would have to join.