fare dodger

See also: faredodger and fare-dodger

English

Alternative forms

• faredodger, fare-dodger

Noun

fare dodger (plural fare dodgers)

1. A person who deliberately avoids payment for public transport.
   • 1995, Changes in Society, Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe:

     Police officers and prosecutors were forced to spend sizeable proportions of their capacity on arresting and prosecuting faredodgers.

   • 2001, Andrew Tettenborn, Law of Restitution in England and Ireland:

     The fare-dodger and the gate-crasher do, after all, commit a trespass [...]

   • 2011 December 22, “Big Man' who threw alleged fare dodger off train in hit internet video is CHARGED with assault”, in Daily Mail:

     Alan Pollock was hailed as a hero after millions on the internet watched a video of the ‘Big Man’ hauling an alleged fare dodger off a train.

   • 2019 December 4, “Open Access”, in Rail, page 37:

     The subject of dealing with fare dodgers seems to be ripe, particularly on crowded trains where the 'train manager-cum-ticket collector' can have difficulty getting through the carriages.

Synonyms

• fare evader

Translations

a person who deliberately avoids payment for public transport

• Armenian: անտոմս ուղեւոր (antoms uġewor)
• Belarusian: за́яц m (zájac, literally “hare”), безбіле́тнік m (bjezbiljétnik), безбіле́тніца f (bjezbiljétnica)
• Catalan: polissó (ca) m, polissona (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無票乘客／无票乘客 (wúpiào chéngkè)

• Czech: černý pasažér (cs) m (literally “black passenger”), slepý pasažér m (literally “blind passenger”)
• Danish: blind passager c, billetsnyder c
• Dutch: zwartrijder (nl) m, blinde passagier (literally “blind passenger”)
• Finnish: pummilla matkustaja
• French: resquilleur (fr) m, resquilleuse (fr) f
• German: Schwarzfahrer (de) m, blinder Passagier (de) m (literally “blind passenger”)
• Hungarian: bliccelő (hu), (chiefly: stowaway) potyautas (hu)
• Italian: portoghese (it) m or f
• Japanese: ただ乗り (ただのり, tadanori)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blindpassasjer (literally “blind passenger”)

• Polish: gapowicz (pl) m, gapowiczka f
• Russian: за́яц (ru) m (zájac, literally “hare”), безбиле́тник (ru) m (bezbilétnik), безбиле́тница (ru) f (bezbilétnica)
• Spanish: polizón (es) m
• Swedish: blindpassagerare (literally “blind passenger”)
• Ukrainian: за́єць (uk) m (zájecʹ, literally “hare”), безбіле́тник m (bezbilétnyk), безбіле́тниця m (bezbilétnycja)

See also

• tax dodger