bed check

1. 1.

   a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be

   Broaderconfirmation

Questions about bed check

What does bed check mean?

bed check means "a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be".

Is bed check a common word?

bed check is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.