bouncer BrE informal
dud cheque BrE informal , also: dud check AmE informal
rubber cheque BrE informal , also: rubber check AmE informal

The gallery closed, I got a dud cheque, the Receiver moved in and there was general disaster.

Therefore, payment by a dud cheque is not payment "as required or expected" within s.3(1).

He wrote a dud cheque for £3000 to 'pay' for some pearls and a ring.

The name became very tiresome as the band's management continually wrote dud cheques, made payable to "Bruce Bruce", as a joke.

William David Gorman, 40, a former military policeman and cruise ship worker, is charged at Fort Lauderdale with assault, issuing dud cheques and car theft.

Major Pendennis would not sign a dud cheque, for instance; Rawdon certainly would, but on the other hand he would not desert a friend in a tight corner.

Bob is a fraudster and has misrepresented his identity or creditworthiness or both, and has left Alice with a dud cheque, or simply does not fulfil a promise to pay later.

A Lagos High Court also cleared Senator Ikechukwu Obiora from being investigated by the police over an alleged issuance of dud cheques to Folio Communications.

In Car and Universal Finance Co Ltd v Caldwell Mr Caldwell told the AA and the police that he had been given a dud cheque for his Jaguar by a rogue.

Recently he seems to have become a bit more canny and is now picking up a living at some sort of job in the film industry; but one never knows from one day to another when we shall suddenly be told that he has started issuing dud cheques again.

- Mimi and Billy had been kept waiting while the second store rang the first, where all the alarm bells went off in the manager's brain, and five minutes later the police arrived, arrested Billy for passing a dud cheque, and he and Mimi spent the weekend in jail.