cheese

Less common meanings

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   dough (money)nounslanguncountable

   Money, especially cash that someone can spend.

   Can you lend me some cheese until I get paid on Friday?

   She saved up enough cheese to buy a used car.

   Similarcash, money, dough, bread

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   importancenounslanguncountable

   An important or powerful person, usually called 'the big cheese'.

   The new manager is the big cheese around here now.

   Ask the big cheese if we can leave early today.

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   verbslangintransitive

   To smile very widely, like people do for a photo.

   He cheesed at the camera with a giant grin.

   Whenever phones come out, the twins cheese for the lens.

   Similargrin, beam, smile

   Oppositefrown, scowl

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   annoyverbslangBritishtransitive

   To make someone angry or annoyed.

   It cheeses me off when the bus is late.

   Try not to cheese off your coach.

   UsageUsed with off: cheese someone off or be cheesed off.

   Similarannoy, irritate, irk, bug, anger

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   play unfairlyverbtransitive or intransitive

   In video games, to win using a cheap trick, a glitch or a surprise rush.

   He cheesed the boss by spamming the same move.

   Some players cheese matches instead of playing fair.

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   noununcountable

   A cheap trick in a video game that uses a mistake in how the game works.

   There's a lot of cheese in this boss fight if you hide on the ledge.

   Players found some cheese that lets them skip the whole level.

   Similarexploit

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    thick jamnounUKuncountable

    A thick, sweet spread or paste made from fruit, such as quince or lemon.

    Like jam that has set so firm you can cut it into slices.

    She spread a layer of damson cheese on her toast.

    The recipe turns the fruit into a firm cheese you can slice.

    UsageUsed after a fruit name, as in quince cheese or lemon cheese.

    Similarpaste, preserve

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    fastballnounslanguncountable

    In baseball, a very fast pitch thrown hard past the batter.

    The pitcher blew some cheese right past the batter.

    Nobody on the team could hit his cheese.

    Similarheat, gas, smoke

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    stopverbdatedtransitive

    To stop doing something, or to hold back from it.

    Cheese it, here comes the teacher!

    Grandpa used to yell "cheese it!" whenever we got too loud.

    UsageSaid as cheese it!

    Similarstop, quit

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    body secretionnounslangvulgarcountable or uncountable

    A rude slang word for the white substance that can build up under the foreskin.

    Wash under your foreskin every day, or cheese will build up.

    He thought he had an infection, but it was only cheese under his foreskin.

    Similarsmegma

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    prepare curdsverbtransitive

    To get milk curds ready so that cheese can be made.
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    nounslang

    A dangerous street drug made by mixing black tar heroin with crushed sleeping pills, sniffed as a powder.
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    nounUK

    In skittles, the heavy wooden piece that players throw to knock down the pins.
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    noun

    In cider making, a stack of crushed apples pressed together into a round, cheese-like block.
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    noun

    Small holes added to a chip's wiring pattern to make it less dense.
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    verb

    To cut small holes into a chip's wiring so the pattern is less dense.
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    noun

    The flat, round seed-fruit of the mallow plant, which children sometimes eat or play with.
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    noun

    A deep curtsey in which a girl's spinning skirts spread out into a round, cheese-like shape.

    Mrs. Curzon-Bowlby, thus deserted in the middle of the room, dropped the prettiest of "cheeses," and broke into a merry peal of unaffected laughter.

    1897, Stanley John Weyman, “The Deanery Ball”Here, cheeses refers to deep curtseys where the skirts spread out in a round shape.