tip the double

English

Verb

tip the double (third-person singular simple present tips the double, present participle tipping the double, simple past and past participle tipped the double)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) To bolt; to run away without paying.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
  • 1959, E. W. Bovill, The England of Nimrod and Surtees, 1815-1854 (page 142)
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