v.
- avoid by a sudden quick movement.
▸move quickly to one side or out of the way.
▸cunningly avoid doing or paying.
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[often as noun dodging]
Photography expose (one area of a print) less than the rest during processing or enlarging.
- Bell-ringing (of a bell in change-ringing) move one place contrary to the normal sequence, and then back again in the following round.
n.
- an act or instance of dodging.
- informal a cunning trick, especially one used to avoid something.
Etymology
C16 (in the senses ‘dither’ and ‘haggle’): of unknown origin.