单词 | dining and dashing |
释义 | dining and dashingn. colloquial (originally North American). The action or practice of hastily or furtively leaving a restaurant, cafe, etc., to avoid paying for one's meal. ΚΠ 1989 M. Lewis Liar's Poker v. 80 Dining and dashing was not unusual in the Salomon Brothers cafeteria. 2004 Chatham (Ont.) Daily News (Electronic ed.) 20 May 2 [He] has already spent 45 days in jail for dining and dashing. 2019 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 10 May a56 We were instructed to pay in advance for the $15-a-person feed; there was no dining and dashing at this place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1989 |
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