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gas-and-dash

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

Meaning of gas and dash

Noun

gas and dash (plural gas and dashes)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) The criminal act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.
    • Everyone in Ontario who owns a 2002 to 2006 Nissan Altima will be contacted under an intense police investigation now under way to find the driver responsible for a deadly gas-and-dash theft.2011 June 8, Bob Mitchell, “‘We will find you,’ police warn driver in gas-and-dash death”, in Toronto Star, Canada

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Forms of gas-and-dash

pluralgas-and-dashes

Questions about gas-and-dash

What is gas-and-dash the alternative form of?
Gas-and-dash is the alternative form of gas and dash.

Words near gas-and-dash in the dictionary

  1. gas vans
  2. gas washer
  3. gas washers
  4. gas water
  5. gas works
  6. gas-and-dash
  7. gas-and-dashes
  8. gas-bracket
  9. gas-brackets
  10. gas-fired
  11. gas-firing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gas-and-dash (page history and authors); gas and dash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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