Usually means: Potentially dishonest or unreliable behavior.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. dodgy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dodgy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dodgy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dodgy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dodgy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dodgy, dodgy: Wordnik
  7. dodgy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dodgy: Wiktionary
  9. dodgy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dodgy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dodgy: Dictionary.com
  12. Dodgy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. dodgy: Rhymezone
  14. dodgy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. dodgy: Free Dictionary
  16. dodgy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. dodgy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dodgy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Dodgy (band), dodgy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dodgy: Magic or Madness

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dodgy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See dodginess as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Evasive and shifty.
adjective:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Unsound and unreliable.
adjective:  Dishonest.
adjective:  Risky.
adjective:  Deviant.
adjective:  Uncomfortable and weird.

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