backchecking

Verb

backcheck (third-person singular simple present backchecks, present participle backchecking, simple past and past participle backchecked)

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...1994, Jack Falla, Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way, page 134
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).

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