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hot check

hot check noun: a check with non-sufficient funds (not enough money in the bank to back it up), written fraudulently.

Noun

hot check (plural hot checks)

  1. (Texas, US) A check with non-sufficient funds (not enough money in the bank to back it up), written fraudulently.
    • And you don’t go writing hot checks down in Mississippi,1978, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, “There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang”, in I Would Like to See You Again, Columbia Records

Forms of hot check

pluralhot checks

Origin of hot check

From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot property (“stolen goods”).

Questions about hot check

What does hot check mean?
Hot check means a check with non-sufficient funds (not enough money in the bank to back it up), written fraudulently.
What part of speech is hot check?
Hot check is a noun.
What is the plural of hot check?
The plural of hot check is hot checks.

Words near hot check in the dictionary

  1. hot chair
  2. hot chairs
  3. hot chassis
  4. hot chat
  5. hot chats
  6. hot check
  7. hot checks
  8. hot cheeto girl
  9. hot cheeto girls
  10. hot chicken
  11. hot chickens

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