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rubber check
noun
- a check drawn on an account lacking the funds to pay it; a check that bounces.
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Origin of rubber check1
Idioms and Phrases
A check drawn on an account without the funds to pay it, as in He's been handing out rubber checks right and left, but the police have caught up with him . The rubber alludes to the fact that, like rubber, the check “bounces,†in this case back from the bank. [ Slang ; c. 1920]Example Sentences
Karma, a thoroughbred mare that was once a racehorse, a Rubber Check Race horse and in training for Polocrosse, had her projects cut short after a life-threatening injury to her left front hoof in 2012.
My party should never be a rubber stamp for rubber check spending.â€
New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir says hundreds of leads and inquiries have come in from across the country and beyond since the Kimeses were nabbed July 5 in New York on a fraud warrant after a Lincoln Town Car they allegedly purchased with a rubber check was found with a loaded gun, a box of .22-cal. cartridges, wigs, $30,000 in cash, blood splatters and documents that may link them to the dead man and the missing banker.
One of the fastest-rising innovations is the rubber check that does not bounce; under such catchy names as "instant money," banks extend a line of credit to their checking-account customers, permit them to write checks up to that amount, charge them interest of 12%.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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