draft dodger

English

Noun

draft dodger (plural draft dodgers)

1. (informal) A person who illicitly seeks to avoid compulsory military service (the draft).

   Synonym: draft evader

   Coordinate term: conscientious objector

   During the Vietnam War, thousands of draft dodgers fled to Canada to avoid serving.

Related terms

• draft-dodge

Translations

person who illicitly seeks to avoid compulsory military service

Catalan: pròfug m, pròfuga f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Wehrdienstumgeher m, Kriegsdienstumgeher m, Drückeberger (de) m (pejorative) Greek: ανυπότακτος (el) m (anypótaktos) Italian: imboscato (it) m Polish: dekownik (pl) m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: уклонист (ru) (uklonist) Spanish: prófugo (es) m Turkish: asker kaçağı (tr) Ukrainian: ухиля́нт (uxyljánt)

Further reading

• draft dodger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia