Meaning of cheek up to | Babel Free

Definitions

To act disrespectfully toward (someone).

informal, transitive

Examples

“She thought of her sister Elizabeth with her eight, and remembered that one who cheeked up to the teachers, so pretty and sulky and shabby, ...”

“I suppose the nursing home was glad to get rid of him. He made passes at the youngest nurses and cheeked up to the older ones.”

CEFR level