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Definition: Bad Check |
Bad CheckNoun1. A check that is dishonored on presentation because of insufficient funds; "issuing a bad check is a form of larceny". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Bad CheckSynonym: bad cheque (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bad Check |
| English words defined with "bad check": bad cheque. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bad check": fsck. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1912) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bad check | 192 |
bad check collection | 44 |
collecting on bad check | 19 |
collect bad check | 15 |
bad check cmos gpnv sum | 9 |
bad check cmos sum | 9 |
bad check sum | 6 |
bad check collection nsf | 6 |
bad check writer | 6 |
bad check image sum | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bad check"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | ongedekte cheque (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check), cheque zonder dekking (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check). (various references) | |
French | chèque sans provision. (various references) | |
German | ungedeckter Scheck (check without cover, check without funds, dishonored check, dishonoured check, dud check, rubber check), Scheck ohne Deckung (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check). (various references) | |
Italian | assegno senza provvista (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check), assegno senza copertura (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check), assegno scoperto (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check), assegno a vuoto (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adbay eckchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cheque sem fundos (rubber check). (various references) | |
Spanish | cheque sin provisión (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check), cheque en descubierto (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check), cheque al descubierto (check without cover, check without funds, rubber check). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-d-e-h-k" | |
-2 letters: bached, backed, cached, hacked. | |
-3 letters: ached, baked, beach, cache, caked, check, hacek, kheda. | |
-4 letters: abed, aced, ache, bach, back, bade, bake, bead, beak, beck, cade, cake, ceca, chad, dace, deck, dhak, each, hack, hade, haed, hake, head, heck. | |
-5 letters: ace, bad, bah, bed, cab, cad, dab, dah, dak, deb, edh, had, hae, kab, kae, kea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-d-e-h-k" | |
+3 letters: hunchbacked. | |
+4 letters: backstitched, checkerboard, switchbacked. | |
+5 letters: checkerboards. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 64 43 68 65 63 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100100 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100101 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a d   C h e c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0064 0043 0068 0065 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36677023774716977 |
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