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shoulder check

shoulder check verb: to look backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.

Verb

shoulder check (third-person singular simple present shoulder checks, present participle shoulder checking, simple past and past participle shoulder checked)

  1. (Canada, US, intransitive) To look backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.
  2. (transitive) To check (strongly bump into) with one's shoulder(s).

Noun

shoulder check (plural shoulder checks)

  1. (Canada, US) An instance of looking backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.
  2. (transitive) An instance of checking (strongly bumping into) with one's shoulder(s).

Forms of shoulder check

Verb
third-person singular presentshoulder checks
present participleshoulder checking
past participleshoulder checked
pastshoulder checked
Noun
pluralshoulder checks

Questions about shoulder check

What does shoulder check mean?
Shoulder check means to look backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.
What part of speech is shoulder check?
Shoulder check can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of shoulder check?
The past tense of shoulder check is shoulder checked.

Words near shoulder check in the dictionary

  1. shoulder bolts
  2. shoulder bone
  3. shoulder bones
  4. shoulder button
  5. shoulder buttons
  6. shoulder check
  7. shoulder checked
  8. shoulder checking
  9. shoulder checks
  10. shoulder devil
  11. shoulder devils

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