cheese

Noun (1)

cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cheeses or (archaic) 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.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 153
   • In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.2015 August, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127
4. (UK, uncountable) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
   • p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···”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...
5. 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!2012, Katrina Hill, Action Movie Freak, page 117
   • A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budget cheese.2012 June 18, Ryan Lambie, “10 delightfully cheesy 90s sci-fi movie trailers”, in Den of Geek!, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2017
7. (slang, uncountable) Money.

   Synonyms:

   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. (slang, vulgar) Smegma.
12. Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
    • 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 pattern density.2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation

Verb (1)

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle 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 off2013, Michael W. Eagle II, “Degrassi Picture Day” (track 1), in Sir Rockabye, performed by Open Mike Eagle and Busdriver
   • It's been a long time since you fell in love / You ain't coming out your shell, you ain't really been yourself / Tell me, what must I do? (Do tell, my love) / 'Cause luckily I'm good at reading / I wouldn't bug him, but he won't stop cheesin'2020 February 27, Doja Cat, “Doja Cat - Say So (Official Video)” (00:42 from the start), archived from the original on 27 Feb 2020

Interjection

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

Noun (2)

cheese (uncountable)

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

Verb (2)

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
   • Cheese it! The cops!
   • Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up)
2. (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
   • All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

Noun (3)

cheese (uncountable)

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

Verb (3)

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle 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.
   • The term cheesing is also pretty common. However, at least originally, ticking had a more specific meaning, ie hitting someone and then throwing after they block, whereas cheesing would be anything "cheap", and thereore depended on the user [...]1993, Alex Werner, alt.games.sf2 (Usenet)
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).

   Synonyms:

   rush, zerg

Proper noun capitalized: Cheese

Cheese (plural Cheeses)

1. A surname.