dodge vs gimmick

dodge

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

verb
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

gimmick

noun
  • A clever ploy or strategy. 

  • A trick or device used to attain some end. 

  • A night out with one's friends. 

  • A gimmick capacitor. 

verb
  • To rig or set up with a trick or device. 

How often have the words dodge and gimmick occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )