0 a piece of paper that you are given by a shop when something that is advertised for sale at a certain price is not available. This piece of paper allows you to buy the product at the advertised price when it becomes available.
1 a part of a ticket to a game, activity, etc., that can be used later if bad weather prevents the original event from happening
2 an offer or request to do or get something at a later time than was originally intended:
Ebbets is credited with inventing the concept of the rain check and of proposing a player draft favoring teams which finished low in the standings.
It was not uncommon for guests to receive rain check passes to ride on another day.
In nearly all cases, the official game status is used to determine whether a rain check will be honored for fans holding tickets.
If a game is halted "after" it becomes official, the game is simply shortened and no rain check is given.
We must take a rain check on them.
I now claim my rain check on all my tributes to him.
Four years later we were able to take a rain check.
Susan then hurries the mailman out and declines a rain check.
