- developed to express a more extreme version of 'eat and run' while providing an alliterative effect
dine-and-dash
adjective; compounding
to eat and run, specifically from a restaurant without paying a tab
Etymology : hyphenated compounding of the words 'dine' and 'dash' through the conjuction 'and'
Source : Found in MSNBC "Wierd News" section, November 2008. Context: "Dine-and-dash gang nabbed via Facebook"
Last modified: 1 December 2008