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rain-check en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rain check.
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rain-check en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative, ambitransitive) Alternative form of raincheck.
Can we rain-check?
2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 403:Jana planted her hands on her hips, rain-checked the promise of allegiance, and continued the challenging stare.
2018, Lindy Cameron, Redback: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:
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