Name Check 

When someone names a band or celebrity or some sort of pop culture figure.

Usually used to describe when some poser is listing bands to try to look cool or when some pretentious guy does the same to show how elite he is.

Poser: Oh yeah I totally listen to At The Drive-In and broken social scene 'you forget it in people' is such a great album man um yeah and the velvet underground totally had some sweet songs even though they were so wierd.

Other Person: Hey! You're just name checking!

Name Check by d0n7 p4n1k July 21, 2008

name checked 

When someone more famous than you mentions your name or the name of your company/product/etc in public. Kind of the opposite of name dropping.

Ozzy name checked my shop on his reality show for that wrist flame tat I gave him.

name checked by idunnoit January 24, 2009

namecheck 

(verb) to namecheck, i.e., to cite, to namedrop

"The Vivian Girls were namechecked by San Francisco guitarist Snakefinger (Philip Lithman Roth), an associate of the Residents, in his song 'The Vivian Girls'."

namecheck by B7flat5flat9 March 14, 2010

nemechecked 

Disrespecting someone by writing their name in all lowercase letters.

This is a reference to a character called Ernő Nemecsek in the hungarian novel "The Paul Street Boys" by Ferenc Molnár, whose name was written in all lower case, because he was suspected of treason.

Justin Bieber often got nemechecked online in the two-thousand and tens because he was hated by so many people.

nemechecked by knower_of_words November 30, 2023