dine and dashes
Eating without paying
Dine and dashes are incidents of leaving a restaurant without paying for one's meal.
The phrase captures the sequence: you dine, then you dash out the door.
The manager installed cameras after a string of dine and dashes.
Also called dine and ditches.
- defraudObtain through deceit
- perpetratorOne who commits wrongdoing
- bilkDefraud of payment
- stiffingFailing to pay due
- restaurantPlace serving meals
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