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Dodgers

Dodgers

152 2.8
A professional baseball team based in Los Angeles
  • proper noun
: Dodgers
  • The Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field... ...and said goodbye to Brooklyn.
  • Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Brooklyn Dodgers

Yeah, Well, you're here today in full Dodgers regalia.

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Examples

  • So in LA, the LA Marathon, you run from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica Pier, right?

  • Among the players available is the Brooklyn Dodgers' Duke Snider, to be sold as a singleton.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Mama offered to drive us to see the Dodgers.

    Hard Country (1981)

  • A lot of people around here were buzzing because the Dodgers won the first game of the World Series last night.

    The Late Late Show with James Corden

  • The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions after the New York Yankees work it out.

  • We were lifelong Brooklyn Dodgers fans, which wound up breaking our hearts a few short years later.

    To the New Girl (2020)

  • There's a Dodgers game tonight at 7:30.

    Ambulance (2022)

  • I mean, I just moved out here and you can feel the presence of three organizations here, the Dodgers, the Lakers and USC.

  • You like the Dodgers?

    End of Watch (2012)

  • A lot of people around here were buzzing because the Dodgers won the first game of the World Series last night.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Dodgers comes from an old Brooklyn nickname, trolley dodgers, for people who had to dodge moving 'trolleys' or streetcars in the streets. The baseball team kept that local name when it began in Brooklyn, so Dodgers now names the team and reminds us of someone who 'dodges' or avoids something.