Backcheck

Quick meaning: Backcheck is a verb meaning (transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.

Meaning

(transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, ice hockey) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
2. The act of backchecking.
3. (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).

Example Sentences

That was a great backcheck, Gordie.

Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project.

It’s been a real team effort, a commitment to defense and backchecking by everybody.

Any time you've got a guy who can score 63 goals, let him, and find someone else to backcheck.

Word Forms

• backchecks
• backchecking
• backchecked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cross-check, bodycheck, check, body check, crosscheck, cycle.

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