backcheck

Meanings

Verb

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

Origin

• back + check