"do a runner" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does a runner",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing a runner",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did a runner",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done a runner",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<does,,did,done>"
      },
      "expansion": "do a runner (third-person singular simple present does a runner, present participle doing a runner, simple past did a runner, past participle done a runner)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              193,
              205
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2018 March 24, “True or false? 'If you do a runner, the waiter has to pay your bill'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "A fortnight ago, in his “Money talks” column, Patrick Collinson related how, at an airport restaurant earlier this month, he was told by a waiter that they had to pick up the tab if a customer did a runner. Yet the company in charge vehemently denied the account, saying: “This does not take place.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To leave somewhere hurriedly, especially to avoid paying."
      ],
      "id": "en-do_a_runner-en-verb-n2sEoP4q",
      "links": [
        [
          "leave",
          "leave"
        ],
        [
          "hurriedly",
          "hurriedly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) To leave somewhere hurriedly, especially to avoid paying."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "dine and dash"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "do a runner"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does a runner",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing a runner",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did a runner",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done a runner",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<does,,did,done>"
      },
      "expansion": "do a runner (third-person singular simple present does a runner, present participle doing a runner, simple past did a runner, past participle done a runner)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dine and dash"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              193,
              205
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2018 March 24, “True or false? 'If you do a runner, the waiter has to pay your bill'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "A fortnight ago, in his “Money talks” column, Patrick Collinson related how, at an airport restaurant earlier this month, he was told by a waiter that they had to pick up the tab if a customer did a runner. Yet the company in charge vehemently denied the account, saying: “This does not take place.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To leave somewhere hurriedly, especially to avoid paying."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "leave",
          "leave"
        ],
        [
          "hurriedly",
          "hurriedly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) To leave somewhere hurriedly, especially to avoid paying."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "do a runner"
}