Rain check

Rain check may refer to:

General

• Rain check, a new ticket for the make-up game if a baseball game is started but does not reach the point of becoming official: now in general use as an agreement for a merchant to provide to a customer an out-of-stock sale item at a later date. At grocery stores, if an item is on sale (offer) and the merchant has run out of the item, the customer may request a rain check in order that he/she may get the item at a later date at the sale price.

Also used in a more common way to refer to meet at another time as in a date or a meeting.

Entertainment

Literature

• Rain Check (1946), a science-fiction novel by Lewis Padgett
• Rain-Check (1956), a poem by Raymond Souster

Music

• "Rain check", a song composed by Billy Strayhorn from the 1967 album ...And His Mother Called Him Bill, released by jazz legend Duke Ellington
  • "Rain Check" (1978), included on the jazz album Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn
  • "Rain Check" (1990), included on the three-CD album The Blanton–Webster Band
• "Rain Check" (1997), a song from the re-released album The Polyfuze Method Revisited by Kid Rock
• "Rain Check" (2004), a song from the album Educated Guess by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco
• "Raincheck" (1971), backing side of a vinyl single by Trousers released by HappySad Records
• "Raincheck" (1972), from the LP record Twice Upon a Rhyme by Paul Levinson
• "Raincheck" (1995), from the album Days Like This by Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison

See also

• Check (disambiguation)