Dictionary

crosscheck en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A verification (of information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.
2. An illegal maneuver where a player strikes another with the shaft of his stick, or the penalty thereby incurred.
3. A penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.

Forms

Coordinates

double check · triple check · recheck

crosscheck en · VERB

Meanings

1. To verify (information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.
2. To commit the infraction of checking an opponent by using the shaft of one's stick with both hands.
3. To hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.
   • He picked up a roughing penalty for crosschecking Montreal’s Andrei Kostitsyn to the ice Tuesday after Kostitsyn hit Boston defenseman Aaron Ward from behind. 2009 January 16, Dave Caldwell, “Goalie Takes a Long Trip to Reach the N.H.L.”, in New York Times:

Forms

Coordinates

triple check · recheck · double check

Deriveds

crosschecker