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Go dutch

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment. idiomatic, informal, slang

    "GOING DUTCH Some girls are quite willing to pay part of the expenses on special dates. When something is planned which is beyond the boy's means. . . ."

  2. 2
    share expenses equally and split the cost of something wordnet

Etymology

A derivative of Dutch treat, from Dutch (“poor imitation; ersatz”), a derogatory term originally referring generically to German-speaking peoples as a whole; first attested 1914.

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