clock the tea

English

Etymology

From clock (“to notice”) +‎ the +‎ tea (“information, gossip”).

Verb

clock the tea (third-person singular simple present clocks the tea, present participle clocking the tea, simple past and past participle clocked the tea)

1. (idiomatic, LGBTQ slang and African-American Vernacular) To discover the truth about something.
   • 2020 December 9, Heran Mamo, “Cardi B Reveals How She Made Her Backside Look More Ample in High School”, in Billboard‎^[1]:

     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.