claim check

Idioms  

1. A receipt for property that has been left or deposited, as in Give me your claim check and I'll pick up your laundry for you. This term most often refers to a receipt for such items as laundry (left for washing), clothes (for dry cleaning), a car (for servicing), or baggage (for short-term storage). [First half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Keep your baggage claim check and know your ticket and flight number.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022

The police search also uncovered, tucked in a prayer book, a claim check for baggage at a Manchester rail station.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once, after handing in his coat at a Moscow restaurant, he showed the claim check sadly to his companion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each child is identified by < a numbered claim check signed by a parent.

From Time Magazine Archive

After we checked our baskets and bedrolls, Sass handed me my claim check and hurried me into the street, where she hailed a bicycle rickshaw.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan