🪁 A flying toy 🦅 A bird of prey 💸 A fake check 🦅 To glide in air 💸 To cheat with checks 🪁 To fly a toy

to kite

1 9.9

To get money using a fake or changed bank check

verb
/kaɪt/

Jargon

: cometer fraude con cheques

They won't let us kite checks forever.
to kite checks

Examples

In their scheme, they would kite checks between multiple banks to avoid detection.
He's been kiting checks all over the country.

Catch Me If You Can (2002)
So given enough time, I think I could kite, bait and destroy these guys, but it's over for me.
Nobody in this crowd ever kited a check or lifted so much as an orange.

Fiction book (1992)
Turns out, the old man's been kiting counterfeit bills from Tunica to Nevada.

Runner Runner (2013)
He tried to kite a check to pay his rent last month, but it bounced.
After being caught, she expressed regret for attempting to kite checks to get cash quickly.

Idioms

high as a kite

NSFW

10 9.0

A state of great excitement and happiness, sometimes from drinking alcohol or taking drugs

Compounds

flying kite

1 1.6

To make a kite fly in the air for fun outdoors

box kite

1 4.6

A kite with a box shape open at both ends

black kite

7.7

A medium-sized bird of prey with dark feathers that often eats dead animals

kite balloon

Archaic

9.6

A balloon with a tail that keeps it facing the wind

kite tail

2.1

A strip attached to the end of a kite to keep it steady in the air

hell-kite

Offensive

9.9

A fierce, violent person who fights without mercy

swallow-tailed kite

8.8

A bird of prey with a long forked tail and black and white feathers

sport kite

5.8

A kite you fly with two lines and both hands to make quick turns

stunt kite

5.2

A kite controlled by two lines that does tricks in the air

white-tailed kite

8.2

A grey and white bird that hunts small animals in warm parts of the Americas

Surface Forms

kite infinitive

kited past

kited past participle

kiting present participle

kites third person singular

Etymology

Kite (to get money with bad checks) comes from the noun for a dishonest check; to kite is to move bad checks to get money, which is why it means getting money illegally.