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on the slate
UK informal
Definition
when the price of food or drink that a regular customer buys is recorded so that they can pay for it at another time
Could you put these drinks on the slate?
(Definition of on the slate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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