oven-dodger, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

oven-dodger n.

[the implication that those who escaped the crematorium ovens of Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps were somehow doing it deceitfully]

a derog. term for a Jew, thus adj. oven-dodging.

2002		J. Meades Fowler Family Business 211: I shall never be able to address the woman who pretended to have given me life with such justified hatred as I did Naomi in my last letter to her. ‘Darling Oven Dodger . . .’.
2010		Sun. Times News Review 19 Dec. 14/1: [headline] ‘Mel Gibson called me an oven dodger’. Somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He [i.e. Mel Gibson] said something about ‘oven dodgers’ [a reference to the gas chambers that Nazis used to kill millions of Jews].
2016		Twitter 21 Nov. 🌐 )))A Texan((( Why are you oven dodgers always whining?
2018		T. Pluck ‘Hot Rod Heart’ in Life During Wartime 107: ‘You going to the big race, oven dodger? [...] We’re gonna kick your ass!’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 119: Sam Davis in procurement. He wasn't overjoyed to be called The Red Sea Pedestrian [...] But the fucker took offence when I called him an oven dodging yid cunt.