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backcheck.

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

9 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.

    transitive
  2. To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.

    intransitive
  3. 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).

Where this word comes from

From back + check.

noun
  1. The act of backchecking.

    That was a great backcheck, Gordie.
    Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project.
Where this word comes from

From back + check.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.