crosscheck

See also: cross-check and cross check

English

Noun

crosscheck (plural crosschecks)

1. A verification (of information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.

   Coordinate terms: recheck, double check, triple check

2. (ice hockey) An illegal maneuver where a player strikes another with the shaft of his stick, or the penalty thereby incurred.
3. (lacrosse) A penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.

Alternative forms

• (ice hockey): cross check

Verb

crosscheck (third-person singular simple present crosschecks, present participle crosschecking, simple past and past participle crosschecked)

1. To verify (information, data, or calculations) by using an alternative source or method.

   Coordinate terms: recheck, double check, triple check

2. (ice hockey) To commit the infraction of checking an opponent by using the shaft of one's stick with both hands.
3. (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:

     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.

Alternative forms

• cross-check
• (ice hockey): cross check

Derived terms

• crosschecker