can I take a rain check?

means: that you do not want to accept an offer or suggestion but you might accept it at another time.

Annie: i was just calling to see if you wanted to have lunch tomorrow.
MAry: oh, I'm Sorry I have a meeting at that time, can I take a rain check?....

by afernand April 27, 2011

rainchecked

Having plans cancelled at the last minute. Usually occurs when the person with whom you had plans gets a better offer, or is too tired/hungover/grouchy/pissed off at you to want to hook up.

I was going to have dinner with my homie, but he was too sleepy to go so he rainchecked me.

by jcalaw63 September 9, 2008

rain check

A promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future.

This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather. By the early 1900s the term was transferred to tickets for other kinds of entertainment, and later to a coupon entitling a customer to buy, at a later date and at the same price, a sale item temporarily out of stock.

I can't come to dinner Tuesday but hope you'll give me a rain check.

by mat64 May 6, 2006

Red Rain Check

An offered postponement of sexual intercourse, due to untimely menstruation.

Mary Jane's offer of a red rain check gave Peter blue balls.

by Migrainiac September 27, 2009

Rain Check

A word improperly used when trying to let someone down that you have no interest in thinking it will put them down lightly. When in reality it only ticks them off because you couldn't just be upfront and tell them No. It's improperly used because they never cash it in which is the whole point of a raincheck.

Aww how sweet, I already have plans for today with my Girlfriends I will have to put a Rain Check on that and maybe follow up.

by Luckyduck100 January 31, 2021

rain check

A term that makes a cancellation seem less offensive.

I'm going to take a rain check on studying today; I have other things to tend to.

by SP128 December 2, 2007

raincheque

The better fucking way of spelling 'rain check.'

Hey Gavin, I'm going to have to take a raincheque on our date since you spelt it rain check, and that makes you a peasant.

by raincheque March 14, 2016