rain-check

English

Noun

rain-check (plural rain-checks)

1. Alternative form of rain check

Verb

rain-check (third-person singular simple present rain-checks, present participle rain-checking, simple past and past participle rain-checked)

1. (ambitransitive) Alternative form of raincheck
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 163–164:

     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 […]

   • 2012, Suzanne Johnson, Royal Street:

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

   • 2018, Lindy Cameron, Redback:

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

   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 403:

     Can we rain-check?