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dined and dashed

dined and dashed is the simple past and past participle of dine and dash.

Meaning of dine and dash

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)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) To commit the crime of eating a meal in a restaurant and leaving without paying.
    • Dine-and-dashed for an ice cream sundae. I did it two or three times a month. Kept it to a hot fudge sundae—never real food or anything like that.2016, Kevin Morris, All Joe Knight, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 48

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Questions about dined and dashed

What is dined and dashed the simple past and past participle of?
Dined and dashed is the simple past and past participle of dine and dash.

Words near dined and dashed in the dictionary

  1. dine-and-dasher
  2. dine-and-dashers
  3. dine-and-dashes
  4. dine-in
  5. dined
  6. dined and dashed
  7. dined at the Y
  8. dined in
  9. dined on ashes
  10. dined out
  11. dined out on

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