gas and dash

present singular third person gases and dashes · present singular third person gasses and dashes · participle present gassing and dashing · participle past gassed and dashed · past gassed and dashed · alternative gas-and-dash

1. CanadaUSinformalTo commit the act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.

   Starting July 1, Kansas motorists who repeatedly gas and dash could lose their driver's licenses.

   2000 June 23, “Gas-and-dash thefts rise with high fuel prices”, in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, US: Associated Press

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   With the price of gas up 26% over the past year . . . too many Americans are filling up without paying up.

   2005 August 16, Logan Orlando, “Don't Try to Gas and Dash”, in Time, US

plural gas and dashes · alternative gas-and-dash

1. CanadaUSinformalThe criminal act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.

   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.

   2014 March 28, “Innisfail RCMP Investigate Gas and Dash”, in www.albertapolicereport.ca, Canada, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016

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   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.

   2011 June 8, Bob Mitchell, “‘We will find you,’ police warn driver in gas-and-dash death”, in Toronto Star, Canada

   [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.

   2012 October 16, Timothy Appleby, “Crime Stoppers launches ‘gas and dash’ awareness campaign”, in Globe and Mail, Canada

   Synonyms: drive-off, fill and flee, fill and fly, gas and go, pump and jump