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rain check noun- a request or promise to take up an invitation at a convenient time; a postponement of any arrangement US, 1930
From the ticket given to a spectator at an outdoor event providing for a refund/admission at a later date, should the event be interrupted by rain. - [L]ast week Andy rang to say that he and Michelle would have to take a rain check because they’d been blackmailed into accepting an invitation from Michelle’s parents[.] — New Statesman, 9 October 1998
- the reduction of a criminal penalty; parole, probation US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 189, 1949
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