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A form of government-operation whereby you are guaranteed "level" or "fair overall" treatment if you are generous with your "checks" to bribe local/state/federal officials, or if you are sufficiently rich (i.e., you have a large enough "balance" in da bank) that said officials feel obliged to make special allowances for you.
We may ostensibly have a "checks and balances" system, but it never seems to help out "da little guy" very much.
Positive or negative reaction to almost anything
Yo, that guy is crazy! Check it!
This pizza sucks. Check it!
Rams win the Super Bowl, Check it!
When a programmer submits a large code change Friday night before leaving on vacation that breaks the mainline build.
*Monday Morning
Developer: "There are a bunch of changes that broke the build; looks like Paul's changes from Friday night. It's pretty complicated, 32 files changed. We should let him know so he fix it."
Developer Lead: "No can do. He pulled a Vegas check in and is on vacation for next 2 weeks, we'll have to rollback the change."
An test or exam so easy that anyone with a pulse would pass.
That midterm was a pulse check! Easiest 100 of my life!
Taken from the times miners had a Canary down in the mine shafts to detect deadly gasses, this is a check of a toilet after destroying it with your bodily waste to make sure it's clear.
"I'm just gonna use the loo."
"Hang on. I was in there. Let me give it a Canary Check."
that thing your cat does when she/he wants to go outside only to stand or sit there for a short period of time then come back in
*cats meows at door for five minutes straight*
"Ok fine" *opens door cat runs out then closes door and begins to walk away* "meow meow meow" "damn you cat and your sky checks
or
*cats meows at door for five minutes straight*
"Ok fine" *opens door cat sits there and looks out* "well which is it?" *five minutes later* "which is you blasted cat?! Are you done with you sky check?!!!
An activity carried out typically by Seniors and some Juniors in which the room checker will fuck around with the room checker in a multitude of ways, i.e. dick pillow, sausage microwaving, meat goggles, making Brett call himself a weenie, and interrogating a freshman about why they only hit him up to fish.
“Yo that freshman got room checked so hard”
“Yeah, I don’t know if he’s ever gonna look at sausages the same way ever again”