hook check

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noun Ice Hockey.

a maneuver for depriving an opponent of the puck by seizing it in the crook of one's stick.Compare check¹ (def. 40).

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Origin of hook check

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby hook check

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How to use hook check in a sentence

“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers|Stereo Williams|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
We try to avoid going away for too long, so we can check back in.
Belle & Sebastian Aren’t So Shy Anymore|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
She came to sound check, that was the first time we ever performed it, and it was really cool.
Deer Tick's John McCauley on Ten Years in Rock and Roll|James Joiner|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating|Ellie Schaack|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
"Very well," said the other, handing him a check for twenty-five dollars as a retainer, and straightway left the office.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The new Government to preserve public order and check all reprisals against the Spaniards.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
But in the organization in which we live over-production tends to check itself at once.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Am I to check the number of rounds in the limbers; on the beaches and in transit during a battle?
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton