backcheck
The act of backchecking.
Noun
- The act of backchecking.
- That was a great backcheck, Gordie.
- Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project.
Origin
From back + check.
Forms
Verb
- 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:
- 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...
- 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:
- 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).