dodger

Meanings

Plural: dodgers

Noun

• a shifty deceptive person
• small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)
• Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
• A person full of tricks or street smarts.
• A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.
• An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
• Bread.

Synonyms

corn dab, corn dodger, fox, slyboots, sprayhood