backcheck

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

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

   • It’s been a real team effort, a commitment to defense and backchecking by everybody.
3. 3

   To check someone else's work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type of…

   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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   1. 4

      The act of backchecking.

      • That was a great backcheck, Gordie.
      • Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project.

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