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go Dutch

go Dutch verb: to pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.

Verb

go Dutch (third-person singular simple present goes Dutch, present participle going Dutch, simple past went Dutch, past participle gone Dutch)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, slang) To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.
    • GOING DUTCH Some girls are quite willing to pay part of the expenses on special dates. When something is planned which is beyond the boy's means. . . .1958, Evelyn Ruth (Millis) Duvall, The Art of Dating, Associated Press, p. 138
    • Ashley Olsen may be a teenage zillionaire, but when she's out on the town with pals, she goes dutch.2005, Rex Reed, reviewing De-Lovely in Mews Items: Amazing But True Cat Stories, by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun, p. 193

go Dutch meaning in Marathi, Tagalog and Arabic

go Dutch in Marathi

split the cost
तुझे तु माझे मी tujhe tu mājhe mī

go Dutch in Tagalog

split the cost
kanya-kanyang bayad

go Dutch in Arabic

split the cost
وَزَّعَ الْمَصَارِيف wazzaʕa l-maṣārīf

Forms of go Dutch

third-person singular presentgoes Dutch
present participlegoing Dutch
pastwent Dutch
past participlegone Dutch

Origin of go Dutch

A derivative of Dutch treat, from Dutch (“poor imitation; ersatz”), a derogatory term originally referring generically to German-speaking peoples as a whole; first attested 1914.

Questions about go Dutch

What does go Dutch mean?
Go Dutch means to pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.
What is go Dutch in Marathi?
Go Dutch in Marathi is तुझे तु माझे मी (tujhe tu mājhe mī). See Go Dutch meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is go Dutch?
Go Dutch is a verb.
What is the past tense of go Dutch?
The past tense of go Dutch is went Dutch.

Words near go Dutch in the dictionary

  1. go down the wrong throat
  2. go down the wrong way
  3. go down with
  4. go downhill
  5. go downtown
  6. go Dutch
  7. go easy
  8. go equipped
  9. go ER
  10. go f oneself
  11. go face

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