dodgers
pronunciation
How to pronounce dodgers in British English:
UK ['dɒdʒəz]
How to pronounce dodgers in American English:
US ['dɒdʒəz]
Word Origin
- Dodgers
- U.S. baseball club, originally based in Brooklyn, N.Y., so called from 1900, from trolley dodgers, Manhattanites' nickname for Brooklyn residents, in reference to the streetcar lines that criss-crossed the borough.
Example
- 1. And you 're the mighty brooklyn dodgers .
- 2. Italy 's government sent police to film alleged tax dodgers as they crossed the border .
- 3. How about those brooklyn dodgers ?
- 4. Over the past two years , foreign governments have fought the alpine nation 's traditional resistance to helping authorities pursue tax dodgers with swiss bank accounts .
- 5. What would duck dodgers do ?