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rain-check en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rain check.
    alt of rain check

Forms

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rain-checks Number=Plur lexicographic

rain-check en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, ambitransitive) Alternative form of raincheck.
    alt 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:

Forms

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rain-checking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rain-checks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
rain-checked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rain-checked Tense=Past lexicographic