backcheck verb 3noun 1forms 3 verb3 •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. — 1984 •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. — 2007 •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). noun1 •The act of backchecking.That was a great backcheck, Gordie.Please backcheck a sample of Sunita's work on the Farthington project. formsbackchecked · backchecking · backchecks