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| cheeses | |
| 1. n. plural of cheese |  |
| 2. interj. euphemistic form of Jesus | |
| cheese | |
| 1. n. A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. | |
| 2. n. Any particular variety of cheese. | |
| 3. n. A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture. | |
| 4. n. (colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy. | |
| 5. n. (slang) Money. | |
| 6. n. (UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles. | |
| 7. n. (slang) A fastball. | |
| 8. n. (slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted. | |
| 9. n. (vulgar, slang) Smegma. | |
| 10. n. (technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. | |
| 11. n. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese. | |
| 12. n. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). | |
| 13. n. 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. | |
| 14. v. To prepare curds for making cheese. | |
| 15. v. (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. | |
| 16. v. (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera. | |
| 17. interj. (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling. | |
| Say "cheese"! ... and there we are! | |
| 18. n. (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance. | |
| 19. n. (slang) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket. | |
| These cheroots are the real cheese. | |
| 20. v. (slang) To stop; to refrain from. | |
| Cheese it, the cops! | |
| 21. v. (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off". | |
| All this waiting around is really cheesing me off. | |
| 22. v. (video games) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter. | |
| You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits. | |
| 23. v. (video games) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games). | |
