to informally check in on someone, with the connotation that the recipient of the gesture may require some good-natured cajoling to respond as desired, as in “Okay I’ll tickle the analytics team and make sure the omnichannel report is on track”; a more jocular version of ping, which is employed when the jargon user wants to present a more technical impression; related to ankle-bite, which acknowledges the mild annoyance caused by the action of repeatedly inquiring about a matter