clock the tea
verbEtymology From clock (“to notice”) + the + tea (“information, gossip”).
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Idiomatic To discover the truth about something.
LGBTQ slang and African-American Vernacular
- On Tuesday (Dec. 8), Cardi [B] revealed her tips and tricks and praised that no one checked her for them. “It’s the fact that I used to put 2 thick a– tights under my jeans in Highschool to make my a– look fatter and nobody ever clock the tea,” she tweeted.2020 December 9, Heran Mamo, “Cardi B Reveals How She Made Her Backside Look More Ample in High School”, in Billboard: