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View synonyms for rubber check
rubber check
noun
- a check drawn on an account lacking the funds to pay it; a check that bounces.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rubber check1
An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
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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]Advertisement
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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