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cheese it-the cops!
cheese it-the cops!
A warning that the police were coming. “Cheese” might be a variant of “cease.” It might also come from the cheese course coming at the end of dinner; in the sense that with nothing else ahead, it's time to leave. In either event, “cheese it—the cops!” was a staple of mid-20th-century crime novels and films, as well as such movies as The Dead End Kids and The Bowery Boys.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Nicol (1) | | - | Scottish, Medieval English |
Malachi | | MAL-ə-kie (English) | Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin |
Launce | | - | Literature |
Meg | | [meg] | |
Avril | | av-REEL (French), AV-ril (English) | French (Rare), English (Rare) |
September | | sep-TEM-bər | English (Rare) |