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dines and dashes

dines and dashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 dines and dashes

What is dines and dashes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dines and dashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dine and dash.

Words near dines and dashes in the dictionary

  1. dineros
  2. diners
  3. diners-out
  4. dinery
  5. dines
  6. dines and dashes
  7. dines at the Y
  8. dines in
  9. dines on ashes
  10. dines out
  11. dines out on

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