cheese

Meanings

Plural: cheesen, cheeses

Noun

• a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
• erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
• A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
• Any particular variety of cheese.
• A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
• A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
• A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
• That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
• Money.
• In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
• A fastball.
• A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
• Smegma.
• Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
• A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
• The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
• 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.
• Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
• The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
• The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.

Verb

• used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
  • "Cheese it!"
• wind onto a cheese
  • "cheese the yarn"
• To prepare curds for making cheese.
• To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
• To smile excessively, as for a camera.
• To stop; to refrain from.
• To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
• To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
• To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

Intj

• Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

Synonyms

cheese, cheeseflower, fromage, gamebreaking, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, money, rush, tall mallow, zerg

Antonyms

fill

Related Words

:Category:en:Cheeses, butter, cream, milk, turophile, yogurt

Anagrams of cheese