crosscheck
See also: cross-check and cross check
English
editNoun
editcrosscheck (plural crosschecks)
- (ice hockey) A penalty where a player strikes another with the shaft of his stick.
- (lacrosse) A penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.
Verb
editcrosscheck (third-person singular simple present crosschecks, present participle crosschecking, simple past and past participle crosschecked)
- (lacrosse) To hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.
- 2009 January 16, Dave Caldwell, “Goalie Takes a Long Trip to Reach the N.H.L.”, in New York Times[1]:
- He picked up a roughing penalty for crosschecking Montreal’s Andrei Kostitsyn to the ice Tuesday after Kostitsyn hit Boston defenseman Aaron Ward from behind.
- To re-examine; to double-check.