Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A place where hats, coats, packages, or other items can be stored temporarily.

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  • noun US A place where outdoor clothing or luggage may be temporarily stored

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  • noun a room where baggage or parcels are checked

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Examples

  • At the front entrance of the sale there was even a checkroom not for coats but for plants already picked but not yet paid for, so that people could keep shopping without fear they'd be filched.

    Two Brooklyn Perennials 2010

  • I led Courtney down the stairs and along the corridor, passing the hotel laundry, the vault, and the baggage checkroom.

    Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne D. J. MacHale 2007

  • Enthusiasm undimmed, he grabbed a sword from the checkroom and staggered off into the night.

    Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000

  • When my daughter and some of her friends had their purses stolen from the checkroom of a teenage nightclub and the owners refused to admit it was their responsibility, I was the one who supplied a short, boyish-looking 21-year-old with a fake i.d. listing him as 16 so that the place could lose its liquor license.

    The Mozart Code Adler, Dick 1999

  • Plywood cutouts of more clowns greeted me: one pointed the way to the checkroom, another to a door marked RESTROOMS; a third had a mechanical arm that semaphored toward the club proper.

    The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

  • Enthusiasm undimmed, he grabbed a sword from the checkroom and staggered off into the night.

    Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983

  • The group tossed their weapons a-clatter toward the checkroom, for the landlord's family to pick up.

    Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983

  • Lapointe eventually found somewhere to park the car, and he followed Maigret to the luggage checkroom.

    Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955

  • Six murderers out of ten, if they have anything incriminating to get rid of, deposit it in the luggage checkroom of a railway station.

    Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955

  • It was at the checkroom of Gare du Nord that François Lagrange had deposited the trunk containing the body of the Deputy.

    Maigret's Revolver Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1952

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