A promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future.
This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather. By the early 1900s the term was transferred to tickets for other kinds of entertainment, and later to a coupon entitling a customer to buy, at a later date and at the same price, a sale item temporarily out of stock.
This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather. By the early 1900s the term was transferred to tickets for other kinds of entertainment, and later to a coupon entitling a customer to buy, at a later date and at the same price, a sale item temporarily out of stock.
by mat64 April 26, 2006
A word improperly used when trying to let someone down that you have no interest in thinking it will put them down lightly. When in reality it only ticks them off because you couldn't just be upfront and tell them No. It's improperly used because they never cash it in which is the whole point of a raincheck.
Aww how sweet, I already have plans for today with my Girlfriends I will have to put a Rain Check on that and maybe follow up.
by Luckyduck100 January 31, 2021
by SP128 November 07, 2007
when someone is unable of pursuing prior plans do to an unexpected obstacle such as time consuming problems or an emergency.
by a_michelle November 07, 2007
by Willis B. Hemmington September 02, 2007
A person who has very skinny wrists and who questions his/her gender. Rain Checks are ballers despite their small wrist size, and also often look up ways to body build to hide their mini-wrists.
Rain Check's wrists are so small that even Captain Li Shang from Mulan couldn't make a man out of him.
Look at that mini-wristed baller in the International League of American Superheros having a bromance! He must be a Rain Check!
Look at that mini-wristed baller in the International League of American Superheros having a bromance! He must be a Rain Check!
by dozahh February 03, 2009
The act of postponing a "golden shower".
by Scottywuzhere June 06, 2018