coat check

coat check (plural coat checks)

1. (US) A service provided at certain businesses which allows one to check one's coat for safekeeping while inside.

   Synonyms: cloakroom, checkroom, coatroom

   • 2025, “Farmers Market”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), More, performed by Pulp:

     There was no coat check / So we wore our dreams out on the dance floor

• “coat check”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “coat check”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “coat check”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.