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bed check
noun
- an inspection conducted soon after bedtime or during the night, as in a barracks or dormitory, to determine the presence or absence of persons required by regulation to be in bed.
Word History and Origins
Origin of bed check1
Example Sentences
Legend has it that players would show up just in time for bed check at 11 p.m., then head back out the door.
Daniel Miner, 43, was missing from a bed check at the Childersburg Community Based Facility and Community Work Center, 30 miles southeast of Birmingham, the Alabama Department of Corrections said.
“Whenever he was out for games on the road, he would see how close he could cut it for bed check,” Steinberg said.
Some students allegedly left their hotel after an 11:30 p.m. bed check and engaged in inappropriate behavior.
“If we bed check them here, we’ll bed check them there,” Del Rio said.
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