Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus./US) bread, a sandwich, food in general; thus hunk/yunk of dodger, a slice of bread.

1835		D. Crockett Col. Crockett’s Tour to North and Down East 105: To mould it, and fashion it, and make it a dodger or a johnny-cake, and bake one side or both.
1843		W. Oliver Eight Months in Illinois 34: Hoe cake, pona bread and dodger.
1853		S. Northup Twelve Years A Slave 67: I cut and handed to each a slice of meat and a ‘dodger’ of the bread.
1855		Squatter Sovereign (Atchison, KS) 18 Sept. 1/3: Why don’t people have more dodger and less gingerbread fixings? They’d be the better for it.
1878		Sedalia Bazoo (MO) 10 Dec. 4/2: Their edibles consist of bacon [and] either dodger or hoe-cake.
1894		Hants. Advertiser 24 Feb. 2/3: A ‘dodger’ is a small cake or biscuit.
1895		Omaha Dly Bee 14 May 4/7: If angels bringing me some dish [...] would set before my hungry eyes a pone of dodger bread!
1897		‘6x8’ [Dick Holt] in Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Aug. red page/3: Loaf of Bread ‘Dodger.’ Common in N.S.W. settled districts. Query: from ‘Dodging the baker’ - begging a loaf of bread?
1919		W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 19: dodger — Bread.
1925		(con. WWI) Fraser & Gibbons Soldier and Sailor Words 79: Dodger, A: [...] Also a Sandwich.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 32/1: Dodger, bread.
1940		Mail (Adelaide) 22 June 23/1: Members of the new A.I.F. have the same word as the old A.I.F. for porridge [...] burgoo [...] A slice of bread is called a ‘yunk of dodger’.
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 24: Dodger, food of any kind. Also, a ‘yunk of dodger’, a slice of bread.
1957		‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 51: Smack us in the eye with another hunk o’ dodger.
1968		S. Gore Holy Smoke 9: He tells young Dave he’d best shoot through for a coupla days and take the troops a few loaves of home-baked dodger.
1983		R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 24: Dodger Bread.
1990		Tupper & Wortley Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Dodger. Baked bread.

2. (US) the penis.

1905–07

Bawdy N.Y. State MS. n.p.: My cloths flew up and my feet flew up too, / And the head of his dodger looked awfully blue.