backcheck
backcheck verb: to check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
Verb
backcheck (third-person singular simple present backchecks, present participle backchecking, simple past and past participle backchecked)
- 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 has no greater test of your heart and intensity than your willingness to...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
- 2004, Bruce Driver, Clare Wharton, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Hockey, page 81:
- 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).
Noun
backcheck (plural backchecks)
- The act of backchecking.
- That was a great backcheck, Gordie.
- Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project.
Forms of backcheck
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | backchecks |
| present participle | backchecking |
| past participle | backchecked |
| past | backchecked |
| Noun | |
| plural | backchecks |
Origin of backcheck
From back + check.
Words formed from backcheck
Questions about backcheck
- What does backcheck mean?
- Backcheck means to check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
- What part of speech is backcheck?
- Backcheck can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of backcheck?
- The past tense of backcheck is backchecked.
Words near backcheck in the dictionary
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