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cheese
1[ cheez ]
noun
- the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
- a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
- something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pulpy apple residue in cider making.
- Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
- cheeses, any of several mallows, especially Malva neglecta, a sprawling, weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.
- Slang: Vulgar. smegma.
- Slang. money:
I’m just trying to get my name out there and hopefully earn some cheese.
- Metalworking.
- a transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire.
- an ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.
- a low curtsy.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.
verb (used with object)
- (in a game, especially a video game) to win (a battle round) by using a strategy that requires minimal skill and knowledge or that exploits a glitch or flaw in game design:
He cheesed the fight by trapping his enemy in the environment and attacking without taking damage.
- Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.
cheese
2[ cheez ]
verb (used with object)
- to stop; desist.
cheese
3[ cheez ]
noun
- Slang. the cheese,
- a person or thing that is splendid or first-rate.
- something that is exactly what is wanted or required.
cheese
1/ tʃiːz /
noun
- the curd of milk separated from the whey and variously prepared as a food
- a mass or complete cake of this substance
- any of various substances of similar consistency, etc
lemon cheese
- big cheese slang.an important person
- as alike as chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheeseSee chalk
cheese
2/ tʃiːz /
verb
- tr to stop; desist
- slang:prison.intr to act in a grovelling manner
Word History and Origins
Origin of cheese1
Origin of cheese3
Word History and Origins
Origin of cheese1
Origin of cheese2
Idioms and Phrases
- cheese it, Slang.
- look out!
- run away!
- cut the cheese, Slang. to expel gas from the stomach and bowels through the anus; fart.
More idioms and phrases containing cheese
- big cheese
Example Sentences
A cooler full of beer below a cheese table signals where I am: the show of an early-career painter.
She comes back a couple of times a week, picking through the ash to look for things from a past life: cup, cracked plate, cheese grater, mixing bowl.
Lady Gaga, as a sympathetic classmate, sings a very good song as Pip trains by using a hot dog wiener as a heavy bag and bench presses blocks of cheese.
The namesake burger was the pinnacle of my burger experience at that time: two thin, perfectly charred beef patties, housemade American cheese, a special sauce, crisp pickles and a beef tallow-toasted sesame bun.
I could have stuffed them with meat, cheese, and herbs, battered them lightly, and deep-fried them.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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