Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An examination or inspection.
- noun A general physical examination.
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- noun A routine visit to the
doctor ,dentist , or the like. - noun A
routine inspection .
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- noun a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had, as we understand it, what we call a checkup, a routine checkup post obviously her bout with cancer.
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A yearly or particularly, a five-year checkup is not beyond the financial means of ordinary people.
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Hes not in a cave, and anyone who thinks he is needs a checkup from the neckup.
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Including the Remington 600 and Winchester 71 are the first signs of mental illness, Dave get a checkup from the neck up.
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The marriage checkup is not therapy but an information service, Cordova told the nonprofit membership group of psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers.
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So if you find yourself still falling for losers all the time, you may need what we lovingly like to call a checkup from the neck up.
Embracing Your Big Fat Ass Laura Banks 2008
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So if you find yourself still falling for losers all the time, you may need what we lovingly like to call a checkup from the neck up.
Embracing Your Big Fat Ass Laura Banks 2008
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I wish, though, he had gone sort of next door to the psychiatric ward, though, and gotten what Kinky Friedman used to call a checkup from the neck up, because, if he is looking at what is happening here, and sees it as anything other than a disaster and a defeat, he's wrong.
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I wish, though, he had gone sort of next door to the psychiatric ward, though, and gotten what Kinky Friedman used to call a checkup from the neck up, because, if he is looking at what is happening here, and sees it as anything other than a disaster and a defeat, he's wrong.
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WILLIS: So you don't just get the cleaning; you also get a safety checkup, which is important.
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