Usually means: Defensive effort to regain puck.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. backcheck: Collins English Dictionary
  2. backcheck: Wordnik
  3. backcheck: Wiktionary
  4. backcheck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. backcheck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. backcheck: Dictionary.com
  7. backcheck: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (backcheck)

verb:  (transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
verb:  (intransitive, ice hockey) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
verb:  (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).
noun:  The act of backchecking.

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