n. 25B6; verb
she dodged into a telephone booth : DART, bolt, dive, lunge, leap, spring.
he could easily dodge the two coppers : ELUDE, evade, avoid, escape, run away from, lose, shake (off); informal give someone the slip.
the minister tried to dodge the debate : AVOID, evade, get out of, back out of, sidestep; N. Amer. end-run; informal duck, wriggle out of; Austral./NZ informal duck-shove.
25B6; noun
a dodge to the right : DART, bolt, dive, lunge, leap, spring.
a clever dodge 007C; a tax dodge : RUSE, ploy, scheme, tactic, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, hoax, wile, cheat, deception, blind; swindle, fraud; informal scam, con (trick); Brit. informal wheeze; N. Amer. informal bunco, grift; Austral. informal lurk, rort.