cheese (someone or something)

cheese

1. interjection Said when one is having one's picture taken, as it is meant to produce a smile as one says it. A: "OK, everyone—smile and say 'cheese'!" B: "Cheese!"
2. slang Money. I got a tutoring gig to earn a little extra cheese on the side. With the amount of cheese they're pulling in every month, they can afford to pay me a little extra for my services.
3. slang Excessive or exaggerated sentimentalism, especially in art, music, or writing; schmaltz. The film is chock-full of cheese, to be sure, but it would take a heart of stone not to be moved by it all the same. Her latest romance novel has all the typical cheese we've come to expect by this point.
4. slang A combination of heroin with crushed tablets of over-the-counter drugs containing acetaminophen and diphenhydramine. There has been a sudden surge of teenagers dying of cheese overdoses in the area.
5. slang In baseball, a fastball, especially one that is particularly difficult to hit. The cheese this pitcher can throw is something incredible to behold!
6. vulgar slang Smegma.

cheese (someone or something)

slang In video games, to reduce an opponent's or enemy's health by deliberately and repeatedly using moves that are difficult or impossible for them to block. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cheese" and "down." He was supposed to be the toughest boss in the whole game, but I managed to lure him into a corner and cheese him without much difficulty.
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cheesing

Smiling, as for a photograph. I don't think she heard us—she's too busy cheesing for the camera.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cheese

1. n. vomit. There’s cheese on the sidewalk. Look out!
2. in. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. Somebody cheesed on the sidewalk.
3. in. to smile, as for a photographer who asks you to say cheese when a picture is taken. Why are you cheesing? Did something good happen.
4. n. money. (see also cheddar.) I don’t have the cheese to buy a new car.

cheesing

mod. smiling. (From the practice of forcing people to smile by saying cheese when attempting to photograph them.) Don’t stand there cheezing. What do you want?
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • cheese
  • put a smile on (one's) face
  • put a smile on face
  • put a smile on someone’s face
  • wear nothing but a smile
  • wearing a smile
  • wearing nothing but a smile
  • raise a smile
  • plastic
  • plastic smile