bed check

noun

: a night inspection to check the presence of persons (such as soldiers) required by regulations to be in bed or in quarters

Examples of bed check in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

During routine bed checks the following morning, officers discovered the three inmates were gone and, in their beds, instead were dummy heads comprised of plaster, flesh-tone paint, and real human hair that apparently fooled the night guards. — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025

Curfews and bed checks — often unannounced — ran their lives off hours. — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023

Sitake said the team always has a bed check, but declined to say what time that was. — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022

At first, it’s believed that the mother is a delusional patient with schizoid personality disorder who has given herself a false identity, so a bed check is conducted to see who might be missing. — David Means, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021

According to the Detroit Free Press, Kearse left the team hotel without permission and was late for bed check before the Lions’ loss Saturday to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bed check

• aztec
• breakneck
• codec
• exec
• mixtec
• paycheck
• pinchbeck
• recheck
• redneck
• toltec
• beck
• breck