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ARTFUL DODGER

Specialty Definition: ARTFUL DODGER

Domain	Definition
Literature	Artful Dodger A young thief, a most perfect adept in villainy, up to every sort of wicked dodge. (Dickens: Oliver Twist.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: ARTFUL DODGER

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Thief	Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: ARTFUL DODGER

Specialty definitions using "ARTFUL DODGER": Patelin. (references)

Modern Usage: ARTFUL DODGER

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Jack Spratt's Parrot as the Artful Dodger (1916)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: ARTFUL DODGER

Domain	Title
Books	Operation: Artful Dodger (Seals-Top Secret , No 1) (reference) Richard Caton Woodville: American Painter, Artful Dodger (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Oliver and the Artful Dodger (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Image Slideshow: ARTFUL DODGER

Frequency of Internet Keywords: ARTFUL DODGER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
artful dodger	68
artful dodger lyrics	7
2 artful dodger	2
artful dodger escape	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: ARTFUL DODGER

Language		Translations for "ARTFUL DODGER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		lišák (dog, dog-fox, he-fox). (various references)

Hungarian		minden hájjal megkent ember (he's a smart one). (various references)

Pig Latin		artfulay odgerday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: ARTFUL DODGER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-f-g-l-o-r-r-t-u"
	-3 letters: outglared, regardful, regulator.
	-4 letters: deflator, dreadful, garroted, gatefold, grateful, outdared, outglare, outraged, ragouted, ultrared.
	-5 letters: dareful, dartled, default, defraud, delator, drafted, drafter, drudger, fadeout, fagoted, fagoter, faulted, floated, floater, flotage, floured, flouted, flouter, foraged, forager, foregut, foulard, garoted, garrote, gladder, gloated, gloater, glouted, grafted, grafter, grouted, grouter, guarded, guarder, legator, leotard, outdare, outdrag.
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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography

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