Usually means: Facial feature below eyes, expressive.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word cheek:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheek: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cheek: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cheek: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cheek: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cheek: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cheek, cheek: Wordnik
  7. cheek: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cheek, Cheek, Cheek, Cheek: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Cheek, cheek: Wiktionary
  10. cheek: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cheek: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cheek: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Cheek, cheek: Dictionary.com
  14. cheek: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. cheek: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Cheek (rapper), Cheek (surname), Cheek, The Cheek: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Cheek: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. cheek: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. cheek: Rhymezone
  20. cheek: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. cheek: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. cheek: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Cheek, Cheek: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. cheek: Free Dictionary
  25. cheek: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. cheek: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. cheek: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheek: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Cheek: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cheek: Medical dictionary
  5. Cheek: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheek: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cheek: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheek, cheek, cheek, cheek: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cheek: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. The Cheek, cheek: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cheekful as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
noun:  (anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
noun:  (figurative, informal, uncountable) Impudence.
noun:  (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
noun:  One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.
noun:  (nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
noun:  (in the plural) The branches of a bridle bit. .
noun:  Either side of an axehead.
noun:  (metalworking) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
verb:  To be impudent towards.
verb:  To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.
verb:  To put or keep something in one’s cheek.
noun:  A pre-Norman surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Texas, United States, established by John R. Cheek.

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