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▸ noun: (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
▸ noun: (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
▸ noun: (uncountable, UK) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
▸ noun: A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
▸ noun: (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
▸ noun: (uncountable, slang) Money.
▸ noun: (countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
▸ noun: (uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
▸ noun: (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
▸ noun: (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
▸ noun: (technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
▸ noun: A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
▸ noun: The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
▸ noun: A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
▸ verb: To prepare curds for making cheese.
▸ verb: (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
▸ verb: (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
▸ noun: (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
▸ noun: (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
▸ verb: (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
▸ verb: (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
▸ verb: (Internet slang, gaming, transitive, intransitive) To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
▸ verb: (video games, slang) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
cheeseflower,
high mallow,
Malva sylvestris,
tall mallow,
Cheddar,
chesse,
chee,
mozzarella,
Gouda,
parmesan,
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