Cheese (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
  2. a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
  3. something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pulpy apple residue in cider making.
  4. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
  5. 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.
  6. smegma.
  7. money: I’m just trying to get my name out there and hopefully earn some cheese.
  8. 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.
  9. a low curtsy.
verb (used without object), cheesed, chees·ing.
  1. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.
verb (used with object), cheesed, chees·ing.
  1. (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.
  2. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.
Idioms
  1. to expel gas from the stomach and bowels through the anus; fart.
verb (used with object), cheesed, chees·ing.Slang.
  1. to stop; desist.
Idioms
  1. cheese it, Slang.
    • look out!
    • run away!
noun Slang.
  1. big cheese.
  2. Slang. the cheese,
    • a person or thing that is splendid or first-rate.
    • something that is exactly what is wanted or required.
noun
  1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and variously prepared as a food
  2. a mass or complete cake of this substance
  3. any of various substances of similar consistency, etc
  4. an important person
  5. as alike as chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese See chalk (def. 6)
verb slang
  1. to stop; desist
  2. to act in a grovelling manner
Cheese (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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