Meaning of Cheek | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pre-Norman surname.
2. The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
   countable, uncountable
3. An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States.
4. The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
   countable, informal, plural-normally, uncountable
5. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Texas, United States, established by John R. Cheek.
6. Impudence.
   figuratively, informal, uncountable
7. One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
   countable, informal, uncountable
8. One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.
   countable, uncountable
9. pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
   countable, uncountable
10. The branches of a bridle bit.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
11. Either side of an axehead.
    countable, uncountable
12. The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper, / That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek: / Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world / Could turn so much the constitution / Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]”

“You’ve got some cheek, asking me for money!”

“the cheeks of a vice”

“the cheeks of a gun carriage”

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