poke check

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   knocking the puck away by jabbing at it with the hockey stick

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Questions about poke check

What does poke check mean?

poke check means "knocking the puck away by jabbing at it with the hockey stick".

Is poke check a common word?

poke check is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.