dine and dash
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Noun
dine and dash (plural dine and dashes)
- (Canada, US, informal) The crime of eating a meal in a restaurant and leaving without paying.
- 2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.
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Translations
leaving a restaurant without paying after eating
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Verb
dine and dash (third-person singular simple present dines and dashes, present participle dining and dashing, simple past and past participle dined and dashed)
Translations
to leave a restaurant without paying after eating
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See also
- (UK) do a runner
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