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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.

See:

• a big cheese
• a little bit of bread and no cheese
• be chalk and cheese
• big cheese
• chalk and cheese
• cheese
• cheese and kisses
• Cheese it
• Cheese it the cops!
• cheese it-the cops!
• cheese off
• cheese someone off
• cheesed off
• cheese-eater
• cheese-paring
• cheesing
• chew the cheese
• cock-cheese
• crotch-cheese
• cut the cheese
• Hard cheese!
• know chalk from cheese
• like cheese at four pence
• make chalk of one and cheese of the other
• Say cheese!
• What's that got to do with the price of cheese?