cap check
A cap check is a direct challenge to someone's credibility — a demand to verify whether what they just said is facts or flat-out cap.
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A cap check is a direct challenge to someone's credibility — a demand to verify whether what they just said is facts or flat-out cap. It's the conversational equivalent of calling someone's bluff, deployed when a claim sounds too wild, too convenient, or too self-serving to accept at face value. Cap checks can be playful banter between friends or genuine confrontations when someone's been running their mouth. Either way, the subtext is the same: show receipts or stop talking. In the age of screenshots and video clips, a cap check often ends careers.
He said he benched 225 his first week at the gym — someone cap check this man immediately.
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