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dodge

/dɑd͡ʒ/ noun C2
  1. An act of dodging.
  2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
  3. A line of work. (slang)

Plural dodges

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“I thought I’d dodge your British law; for I was not sure how I stood under it, and also I saw my chance to throw these hounds once for all off my track.
The Valley of Fear, p. 94 · C1
He made his money in real estate, and afterwards in the wheat pit at Chicago, but he spent it in buying up as much land as would make one of your counties, lying along the Arkansas River, west of Fort Dodge.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 75 · B2

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