# backcheck

> English word · Verb

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

## Etymology
From back + check.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/backcheck