According to Health, gleeking occurs when your tongue applies pressure to the glands under your tongue that make saliva.
Saliva is important, as the Cleveland Clinic explains: “It kickstarts digestion, helps you chew and swallow food, and protects your teeth.”
The unique way of spitting normally happens accidentally when you eat, talk, or yawn.
Although most healthcare providers will have heard of it, it has no official medical term and it’s basically ‘pretty useless.’
As it is purposeless, you’ll probably only use the unusual talent to disgust your friends or get a few laughs.
Still, if you’re curious, there is a way to try to do it on command.
Steven Morgano, DMD, chair of the Department of Restorative Dentistry at the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, and Mark S. Wolff, DDS, Ph.D., dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have helped share four steps.