Dictionary

backcheck en · NOUN

Etymology

From back + check.

Meanings

1. The act of backchecking.
   • That was a great backcheck, Gordie.
   • Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project.

Forms

backcheck en · VERB

Etymology

From back + check.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
   • Any time you've got a guy who can score 63 goals, let him, and find someone else to backcheck. 1984, Walter Gretzky, Charles Taylor, Jim Taylor, Gretzky : from the Back Yard Rink to the Stanley Cup, page 128:
2. (intransitive) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
   • 2004, Bruce Driver, Clare Wharton, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Hockey, page 81: A smart defensive player knows when to backcheck the puck carrier and when to backcheck to cover an open player. Hockey has no greater test of your heart and intensity than your willingness to backcheck, particularly at the end of a sustained attack when the other team has suddenly come up with the puck and you are feeling exhausted. 1994, Jack Falla, Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way, page 134:
   • It’s been a real team effort, a commitment to defense and backchecking by everybody. 2007 March 26, Lynn Zinser, “Rangers Stay Cool in Another Pressure-Filled Win”, in New York Times:
3. (qualifier:quality control) To check someone else's work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type of review or audit, especially one that runs on a backchannel workflow in parallel with the main workflow (and thus is not a rate-determining or throughput-bottlenecking step).

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Deriveds

backchecker