a long, thin cheese-flavoured pastry.

(Canada, US, euphemistic, slang) To fart (flatulate). / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, cheese.

(idiomatic, chiefly imperative) To smile for a photograph by saying the word "cheese" (the vowel of which, when pronounced as is usual in English, forces a somewhat smile-shaped mouth).

A type of rennet cheese that is firm owing to the curds having been pressed or comminuted to a large degree to shed more whey and ripened for a longer time.

(idiomatic) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.

A Dutch cheese with a red coating.

(US) cottage cheese

A variety of hard, pale yellow cheese originally produced in the region around Cheddar in Somerset, England. / Any similar cheese made anywhere in the world.

(idiomatic, Britain, slang) Annoyed, upset, angry.

simple past tense and past participle of cheese off