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hot checks

hot checks is the plural of hot check.

Meaning of hot check

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

Questions about hot checks

What is hot checks the plural of?
Hot checks is the plural of hot check.

Words near hot checks in the dictionary

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

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