Dutch v.
1. (also dutch up) to ruin another’s business, social standing, enjoyment etc. with deliberate malice.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Knocking the Neighbors 127: Each gal found out too late that she had Dutched her Book and backed into the wrong Paddock. | |
 | Lil of the Lounge 13: Everybody dutches everybody all round, and it’s the one that dutches last who gets the most! | |
| Professor How Could You! 142: It’s foolish for a couple of grown men [...] to let a nitwit like that dutch up the best route in Iowa. | |
| , | | DAS. |
| Maledicta III:2 157: dutch v 1: Ruin with malice one’s business, health, or social standing; from the alleged unethicalness of Dutch merchants 2: Bet in such a way to ruin a gambling house 3: Speak emphatically. |
2. to kill oneself [Dutch act n.].
| ‘Death Ends the Scene’ Hollywood Detective May 🌐 ‘I saw you putting that gun in his hand to make it look like suicide!’ [...] ‘Lay off, sister,’ I growled. ‘The guy dutched himself’. |
3. to bet in such a way that the bank is broken.
| Sun (NY) 18 Oct. 11/1: Izzy Hamm says that his book has been Dutched ever since Bennings. | |
| Honest Rainmaker (1991) 117: He had dutched many a book in his time. | |
| Maledicta III:2 157: dutch v [...] Bet in such a way to ruin a gambling house. |
4. to speak emphatically.
| Maledicta III:2 157: dutch v [...] Speak emphatically. |
In phrases
to share expenses, usu. of a meal.
| in DARE. |
to commit suicide.
| ‘Suicide Stunt’ Speed Detective Apr. 🌐 Being left-handed, Melton wouldn’t plug himself through the right temple. Get it? He didn’t Dutch himself! | |
| ‘Poison Payoff’ Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Six months ago your kid sister Dutched herself [...] She committed suicide because a man did her dirty. | |
| Rap Sheet 135: Nitti dutched himself out. Committed suicide. |
(US) to give up, to let go of, as in a hold-up.
| Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: ‘Gentlemen!’ he [the coachman] plead, ‘there is need o’ yer dutchin’ out yer dudads right liberal ef yer’ve enny purtic’lar anticipation an’ desire ter git ter Deadwood ter-night. Dick, the Road-Agent, are law an’ gospel heerabouts, I spec’late!’. |
see sense 1 above.