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dine-and-dash

dine-and-dash is the alternative form of dine and dash.

Meaning of dine and dash

Noun

dine and dash (plural dine and dashes)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) The crime of eating a meal in a restaurant and leaving without paying.
    • 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.2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Forms of dine-and-dash

pluraldine-and-dashes

Questions about dine-and-dash

What is dine-and-dash the alternative form of?
Dine-and-dash is the alternative form of dine and dash.

Words near dine-and-dash in the dictionary

  1. dine in
  2. dine on ashes
  3. dine out
  4. dine out on
  5. dine with Duke Humphrey
  6. dine-and-dash
  7. dine-and-dasher
  8. dine-and-dashers
  9. dine-and-dashes
  10. dine-in
  11. dined

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