gas and dash
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To commit the act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.
Canadian usage; American usage; Informal
noun
The criminal act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.
Canadian usage; American usage; Informal
Example Sentences
- "Starting July 1, Kansas motorists who repeatedly gas and dash could lose their driver's licenses."
- "With the price of gas up 26% over the past year . . . too many Americans are filling up without paying up."
- "Everyone in Ontario who owns a 2002 to 2006 Nissan Altima will be contacted under an intense police investigation now under way to find the driver responsible for a deadly gas-and-dash theft."
- "[A] private member’s bill . . . would compel drivers to prepay for all gas purchases. . . . [S]ince British Columbia put a similar law in place, gas-and-dashes have ceased."
- "In the late evening of March 27, 2014 RCMP Innisfail received a complaint of theft of fuel (gas and dash) from the Penhold Fas Gas."