draft dodger

1. 1.

   someone who is drafted and illegally refuses to serve

   Synonymsdraft evader

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Questions about draft dodger

What does draft dodger mean?

draft dodger means "someone who is drafted and illegally refuses to serve".

What is another word for draft dodger?

Close synonyms include draft evader. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is draft dodger a common word?

draft dodger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.