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poke-check ((n.)) Hockey 
n. a defensive play made by holding the stick low along the ice and poking the puck out of the puck-carrier's control.
- 1945 The crowd was frantic. The score was tied. I was [in imagination] Frank Nighbor, Canada's immortal poke-check genius.
- 1964 To me some of the most fascinating moves in hockey . . . are poke-checks, or well timed interceptions, or expeditions of forechecking, and I'd like to see them pointed up more in the commentary.
- 1945 The crowd was frantic. The score was tied. I was [in imagination] Frank Nighbor, Canada's immortal poke-check genius.