check, verb
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- U.S. slang.
slang
1.
a. intransitive. In the imperative phrase check at (someone) or check at (something): look at (someone or something).
1970 J. Greenwood Informant, Johannesburg, GautengCheck at that new car.
1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 36I mean check at the shape..I mean, this isn’t just sommer a chip any more — it’s a bladdy twentieth-century work of art! I mean check at it!
b. transitive. In the phr. to check (someone) skeef or to check (something) skeef [see skeef adverb], to give (someone or something) a dirty look, to look askance at (someone or something).
1977 C. Hope in S. Gray Theatre Two (1981) 56Should have seen the way she was checking me skeef when I asked her for more beer.
1993 A. Goldstuck in Rhodent (Rhodes Univ.) 28Pastimes include..donnering the bliksem out of anyone who checks him skeef.
c. transitive. To look at (someone or something); to watch (someone or something).
1980 E. Patel They Came at Dawn 48Sommer Haanetjie is checking the scene like the especial branch do.
2.
a. transitive and intransitive. To see (someone or something).
1980 R. Govender Lahnee’s Pleasure 16While I’m filling away I checked these two ous behind nother one tree.
1991 D. Galgut in Cosmopolitan Aug. 163‘Y’check?’ he inquired, gesturing toward me with his hand...‘Y’check what a baby you are?’
b. transitive. In the interjectional phr. check you, ‘see you’, goodbye.
1987 L. Beake Strollers 6‘I’m really going.’ Nothing. ‘Well, check you man!’ Nonchalantly Abel left.
1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 177For a moment she thought..that he would leave in a huff and not speak to her again. But he said ‘Check you, OK?’ and went out.
In the phr. to check (someone) skeef or to check (something) skeef [see skeef adverb],to give (someone or something) a dirty look, to look askance at (someone or something).
To look at (someone or something); to watch (someone or something).
To see (someone or something).
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