gas and dash

See also: gas-and-dash

English

Alternative forms

• gas-and-dash

Pronunciation

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Noun

gas and dash (plural gas and dashes)

1. (informal, Canada, US) The criminal act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.
   • 2011 June 8, Bob Mitchell, “‘We will find you,’ police warn driver in gas-and-dash death”, in Toronto Star‎^[1], Canada:

     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.

   • 2012 October 16, Timothy Appleby, “Crime Stoppers launches ‘gas and dash’ awareness campaign”, in Globe and Mail‎^[2], 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.

   • 2014 March 28, “Innisfail RCMP Investigate Gas and Dash”, in www.albertapolicereport.ca‎^[3], Canada, archived from the original on 7 March 2016:

     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.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• dine and dash

Verb

gas and dash (third-person singular simple present gasses and dashes or gases and dashes, present participle gassing and dashing, simple past and past participle gassed and dashed)

1. (informal, Canada, US) To commit such an act.
   • 2000 June 23, “Gas-and-dash thefts rise with high fuel prices”, in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal‎^[4], US: Associated Press:

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

   • 2005 August 16, Logan Orlando, “Don't Try to Gas and Dash”, in Time‎^[5], US:

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