crosscheck

See also: cross-check and cross check

English

Noun

crosscheck (plural crosschecks)

1. (ice hockey) A penalty where a player strikes another with the shaft of his stick.
2. (lacrosse) A penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.

Verb

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

1. (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.

2. To re-examine; to double-check.