dodgepot
n.— «The old boats and dodgepots who make up the jumpers are back clambering over timber and birch, and just to remind me a nice juicy cheque arrived the other day.» —“Time To React Over Jarvis Filly” Sporting Life (U.K.) June 11, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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