dutch treat

1. 1.

   a dinner where each person pays for his own

   Broaderdining

Questions about dutch treat

What does dutch treat mean?

dutch treat means "a dinner where each person pays for his own".

Is dutch treat a common word?

dutch treat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.