cheese

noun cheeses · cheesen

1. uncountable A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2. countable Any particular variety of cheese.
3. countable A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture. He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road.
4. UK, uncountable A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly) 1807, Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionabl
5. countable, uncountable A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
6. colloquial, uncountable That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy. It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!
7. slang, uncountable Money.

   Similar: cheddar

8. UK, countable In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
9. slang, uncountable A fastball.
10. slang, uncountable A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
11. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Smegma.
12. countable, uncountable Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout patter
13. countable, uncountable A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese. Apple pulp is poured into the cloth until the frame is full. The edges of the cloth are folded over the pulp forming a cloth-bound bed of apple pulp, called a 'cheese' as it resembles the European-style bound cheese. The frame is removed, a divider is placed on the 'cheese' and another 'cheese' is b
14. countable, uncountable The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
15. countable, uncountable 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. The time was morning; the young lady was not fifteen; her spirits were as the spirits of a fawn in May; her tour of duty for the day was either not come, or was gone; and, finding herself alone in a spacious room, what more reasonable thing could she do than amuse herself with making cheeses? that i

Similar: money, cheese, fromage · Opposite: fill

verb cheeses · cheesing · cheesed

1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
2. To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
3. slang To smile excessively, as for a camera. Yeah, a couple homegirls cheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off

interjection cheese!

1. Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling. Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!

noun

1. slang, uncountable Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
2. British, India, dated, slang, uncountable The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket. These cheroots are the real cheese.

Similar: cheese, fromage

verb cheeses · cheesing · cheesed

1. slang To stop; to refrain from. Cheese it! The cops!
2. slang To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off". All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

noun

1. uncountable The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.

Similar: cheese, fromage

verb cheeses · cheesing · cheesed

1. Internet, ambitransitive To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.) You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
2. 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).

   Similar: rush, zerg

Similar: gamebreaking

proper noun Cheeses

1. A surname.