bed check


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bed check

n.
An inspection to determine that people, such as military personnel or boarding school students, are in bed by a certain time.
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Noun 1. [画像:bed check - a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be]bed check - a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be
confirmation, substantiation, verification, check - additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"
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