The action of checking the "Early life (can include education)" section of someone's Wikipedia page to verify a specific demographic background.
Contextually, mostly used to verify someone's Jewish descent.
Person "Going to do an early life check real quick..."
*opens wikipedia and opens early life and education section
Wikipedia: to a Jewish family/Jewish descent.
Person: "yeah no wonder."
12 step recovery jargon referring to someone new who talks about how great life is, now that they'resober. Usually meaning that the person is out of touch with reality.
The new guy seems pretty happy for a dude who has no job, no money and no family. He must be on a pink cloud.