scrum check

A quick gut-check to see if someone is still moving fast or if they've quietly tapped out. A sprint check is the social equivalent of a team standup — calling on someone to confirm they're still in go-mode and haven't silently stalled. Used in friend groups, study sessions, or work situations where momentum matters and falling behind can derail everyone. If someone's not passing their sprint check, the group knows it's time to either pull them back in or adjust the pace.

A quick evaluation of whether someone or something is genuinely delivering — originally invoking the standup comedy standard of actually being funny, not just trying. Online it's used to call out whether a person's actions match their claimed values: are you actually standing up for what you said you would? A standup check can be a self-audit or a public challenge thrown at someone whose behaviour hasn't lined up with their words. In dev culture it also puns on the Agile standup meeting, questioning whether that daily ritual is even serving its purpose anymore.

Hostile shoving between two groups.

A quick social audit — asking or confirming whether a take, plan, outfit, or person actually holds up to scrutiny. Doing a valid check means running something through the collective filter of your group or your own standards to see if it genuinely tracks. It can be sincere (genuinely unsure) or performative (already know it's good, just want the validation out loud). Either way, it's the slang version of 'does this actually make sense?' — applied to virtually anything.

A grimy check is a quick social audit to see whether someone is operating with a level of moral sketchiness that disqualifies them from the situation. Before you let someone into the group, the plan, or your trust, you run a grimy check — asking around, scrolling their timeline, cross-referencing stories. It's not paranoia; it's due diligence. The grimy check exists because some people look normal on the surface until someone who knows them pulls up the receipts.