cookie licking
The act of calling "dibs" on something long before you actually intend to do it. For example, announcing that your team will handle project X when in fact you won't even start until sometime next year.
"I just got that email saying you were going to write the backend for the TacoTruck web app? Is that true?"
"Naw, I was just cookie licking, man."
"Naw, I was just cookie licking, man."