rain-check
rain-check is the alternative form of rain check.
rain-check is the alternative form of raincheck.
Meaning of rain check
Noun
rain check (plural rain checks)
- A reissue, at no extra charge, of a ticket for a baseball game or other outdoor event postponed or interrupted because of rain.
- With trembling fingers he pulled out his watch. The hands pointed to five minutes to three. A blessed vision came to him of a moist and disappointed crowd receiving rain-checks up at the Polo Grounds.1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Summer Storms”, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC, page 167
- A (special) price guarantee for a sold-out item or temporarily unavailable service.
- This means that if you go to the store for a half priced $25 turkey, but the turkeys are out, you can get a rain check. With the rain check, when those turkeys arrive again in a week or so, you will get half price, even if the sale is over.2010, Kristin Peoples, Don't Throw Those Coupons Away!, →ISBN, pages 17–18
- The promise to make good on any experience that the customer deems unsatisfactory.
- [Regarding visiting the Indianapolis, Indiana, chapter of the fraternity Kappa Sigma] […] if in any respect the affair does not suit you—call at the box office and you’ll get your money back or get a rain check, just as you please.1896 January, Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, volume 11, number 1, Philadelphia, page 305
- In social interactions, a deferred invitation, or deferred acceptance of an invitation.
- I can't go with you to the museum this Saturday, but can I take a rain check and go some other day?
Meaning of raincheck
Verb
raincheck (third-person singular simple present rainchecks, present participle rainchecking, simple past and past participle rainchecked)
- To take a rain check on; to postpone.
- Jana planted her hands on her hips, rainchecked the promise of allegiance, and continued the challenging stare.2018, Lindy Cameron, Redback
Forms of rain-check
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rain-checks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rain-checks |
| present participle | rain-checking |
| past participle | rain-checked |
| past | rain-checked |
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rain-check (page history and authors); rain check (page history and authors); raincheck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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