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cheese it

slang imperative Run; hide; get out of here; stop what one's doing. Cheese it, someone called the cops!

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cheese it

Stop, look out, as in Cheese it! Here come the cops! This term, generally stated as an imperative, may have been a replacement for the earlier "Stop at once." Eric Partridge speculated that it may have been a corruption of Cease! but its true origin is not known. [Slang; mid-1800s]

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Cheese it !

verb

See Cheese it the cops!

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cheese it

Slang

1. To look out. Often used in the imperative.

2. To get away fast; get going. Often used in the imperative.

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