From here:
"With Hurricane Irma’s eye set on the Georgia coast on Thursday, 19-year-old Georgia Southern sophomore Jessica Lewis was getting out of dodge and heading home to Atlanta."
At first I thought it was Dodge, referring to the car make. But the initial "d" is not capitalized. Plus, it would have been "her Dodge".
The noun "dodge" means a cunning move to avoid something, so how could someone "get out of dodge", where dodge is a non-count noun.
Best Answer
Because the "d" in "Dodge" should have been capitalized. But the "Dodge" being referenced was not a make of car, but rather a place, namely "Dodge City," which was for a few years one of the wildest towns in the "Wild West." It was for a number of years the terminus of the cattle drives from Texas, where the herds met the railroad.
Because Dodge City was a very violent place for a number of years, it was frequently prudent to leave it behind expeditiously.