rain-check

A form of rain check — A reissue, at no extra charge, of a ticket for a baseball game or other outdoor event postponed or interrupted because of rain.

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Meanings

nounrain-check (plural rain-checks)

plural rain-checks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of rain check.
verbrain-check (third-person singular simple present rain-checks, present participle rain-checking, simple past and past participle rain-checked)

present singular third person rain-checks · participle present rain-checking · participle past rain-checked · past rain-checked

  1. alternativeambitransitiveAlternative form of raincheck.

    Can we rain-check?

    2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 403
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    What say we rain-check this. What say I put the last of this out of its amber misery and we go in and tell her you're not feeling up to snuff enough again and we're rain-checking your first introduction to the Game till this weekend […]

    1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 163–164

    Earlier, I'd arranged to meet Eugenie in Metairie to help her find a new refrigerator, but I called and rain-checked.

    2012, Suzanne Johnson, Royal Street

    Jana planted her hands on her hips, rain-checked the promise of allegiance, and continued the challenging stare.

    2018, Lindy Cameron, Redback
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APA

rain-check. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rain-check

MLA

“rain-check.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rain-check. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rain-check,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rain-check.

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