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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cheek /tʃik/USA pronunciation n. - Anatomy either side of the face below the eye and above the jaw:[countable]She kissed me on the cheek.
- rude or disrespectful behavior;
impudence:[uncountable]He's got a lot of cheek, talking back to his parents.
Idioms- Idioms cheek by jowl, [ noncount;
often: ~ + with] very close in intentions, ideas, etc.;
side by side:The vice-president is cheek by jowl with the boss on this deal.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cheek (chēk),USA pronunciation n. - Anatomyeither side of the face below the eye and above the jaw.
- Anatomythe side wall of the mouth between the upper and lower jaws.
- something resembling the side of the human face in form or position, as either of two parts forming corresponding sides of various objects:the cheeks of a vise.
- impudence or effrontery:He's got a lot of cheek to say that to me!
- Slang Termseither of the buttocks.
- Architecture
- one side of an opening, as a reveal.
- either of two similar faces of a projection, as a buttress or dormer.
- Building[Carpentry.]
- a piece of wood removed from the end of a timber in making a tenon.
- a piece of wood on either side of a mortise.
- Buildingone side of a hammer head.
- Time[Horol.]one of two pieces placed on both sides of the suspension spring of a pendulum to control the amplitude of oscillation or to give the arc of the pendulum a cycloidal form.
- Printingone of the two main vertical supports forming the frame of a hand printing press.
- Mechanical Engineering[Mach.]either of the sides of a pulley or block.
- Naval Terms[Naut.]either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a lower mast, used to support trestletrees which in turn support a top and often the heel of a topmast;
one of the hounds of a lower mast. - Metallurgyany part of a flask between the cope and the drag.
- Idioms cheek by jowl, in close intimacy;
side by side:a row of houses cheek by jowl. - Idioms (with) tongue in cheek. See tongue (def. 29).
- bef. 900; Middle English cheke, Old English cē(a)ce; akin to Dutch kaak, Middle Low German kake
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged nerve, audacity, brass, gall.
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