hot check
nounEtymology From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot property (“stolen goods”).
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Texas, US A check with non-sufficient funds (not enough money in the bank to back it up), written fraudulently.
- And you don’t go writing hot checks down in Mississippi,1978, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, “There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang”, in I Would Like to See You Again, Columbia Records:
- Related terms
- hot property
- Hypernyms
- bad check, bounced check, rubber check