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sweep-check ((n.)) Hockey 
n. a check made by a player crouching low while sweeping the ice surface in an arc with his stick, thus deflecting the puck from the blade of the opposing player's stick.
See also: hook-check
- 1963 According to Jack Adams a Fort William player named Rochon invented the hook or sweep check which Nighbor and Jack Walker adopted. . . .
- 1963 According to Jack Adams a Fort William player named Rochon invented the hook or sweep check which Nighbor and Jack Walker adopted. . . .