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dodgepot

dodgepot
 n.— «Re Brazil’s goalkeeper—Alan Hansen: “Brazil are great going forward, terrfic, but their goalkeeper is an absolute dodgepot.” Jimmy Hill: “It doesn’t take a genius to see that their goalkeeper is slightly suspect.”» —“Walking Parisian grass takes le biscuit” by Mary Hannigan Irish Times June 11, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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