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1. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
    
2. Erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in the United States
   - tall mallow, high mallow, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris
    
3. (informal) something melodramatic, overly emotional, sentimental, or clichéd

1. Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
   "Cheese it!"
    
2. Wind onto a cheese
   "cheese the yarn"

Derived forms: cheesed, cheesing, cheeses

Type of: cease, dairy product, discontinue, food, give up, grub, kai [NZ], khana [Asia], lay off, mallow, quit, solid food, spool, stop

Part of: genus Malva, Malva

Encyclopedia: Cheese