rain check
noun
a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
raincheck
-
a variation of
rain check.
Example Sentences
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Her introspective gender fluidity dovetailed with an “it” girl’s practiced mystique: in a 2013 essay for the trans magazine Original Plumbing, she described her body as “a raincheck, a cliffhanger, an IOU.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016
The guests got a raincheck for a return visit later in the year.
From Time Magazine Archive
