shoulder check

verb

To look backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.

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Meanings

verbshoulder check (third-person singular simple present shoulder checks, present participle shoulder checking, simple past and past participle shoulder checked)

present singular third person shoulder checks · participle present shoulder checking · participle past shoulder checked · past shoulder checked

  1. CanadaUSintransitiveTo look backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.
  2. transitiveTo check (strongly bump into) with one's shoulder(s).
nounshoulder check (plural shoulder checks)

plural shoulder checks

  1. CanadaUSAn instance of looking backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.
  2. transitiveAn instance of checking (strongly bumping into) with one's shoulder(s).
Cite this entry
APA

shoulder check. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoulder%20check

MLA

“shoulder check.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoulder%20check. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shoulder check,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoulder%20check.

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