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dining and dashing

dining and dashing is the present participle and gerund 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 dining and dashing

What is dining and dashing the present participle and gerund of?
Dining and dashing is the present participle and gerund of dine and dash.

Words near dining and dashing in the dictionary

  1. dinichthyids
  2. dinickel
  3. diniconazole
  4. dinics
  5. dining
  6. dining and dashing
  7. dining at the Y
  8. dining car
  9. dining cars
  10. dining chair
  11. dining chairs

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