comp v.
to give free tickets, free board and lodging etc, usu. in the context of show business or casino hotels.
 | US Senate Hearings on Banking 1266: [H]e came several times [...] and we ‘comped’ him [...] We do it for a number of people on the stage, on the radio, and we will continue to do it. A doctor came down, a famous doctor, a cancer expert, Dr. Max Cutler, and we ‘comped’ his room. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Sat. Eve. Post 11 Nov. 21: ‘Comping’ – giving things away on a complimentary basis. | |
| in Esquire Mar. 44: The group was flown free [and] is being comped for rooms, meals and beverages at that hotel. | |
| Tourist Season (1987) 316: TV celebrities, delighted to shill for the tourist board in exchange for comped rooms at the Fontainebleau. | |
| Street Talk 2 86: I got comped to tonight’s show. | |
| Shame the Devil 148: ‘The Black Cat’s got a good bill.’ ‘You comped?’ ‘You got it, Daddy-O.’. | |
| Hurricane Punch 173: Give me half [i.e. the pills] and I’ll comp you a session. | |
| The Force [ebook] [C]omped seats at the Garden, the Meadowlands, Yankee Stadium and Shea, walk-into-any-restaurant-bar-or-club-in-the-city-and-get-treated-like-royalty. | |
| Life’s Too Short 155: I wish my mom were alive. I would have comped her a first-row seat. |