dine and dash

• dine-and-dash

dine and dash (plural dine and dashes)

1. (Canada, US, informal) The crime of eating a meal in a restaurant and leaving without paying.
   • 2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.

• gas and dash
• smash and dash

dine and dash (third-person singular simple present dines and dashes, present participle dining and dashing, simple past and past participle dined and dashed)

1. (Canada, US, informal) To commit such an act.

• (UK) do a runner