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cheddar

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈt͡ʃɛdə(ɹ)//

A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar.

noun

  1. 1

    A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar.

  2. 2

    slangMoney, cash, currency.

    Touch my cheddar, feel my Beretta.

Etymology

From Cheddar cheese. The slang use meaning "money, currency" may be derived from association with cheese (“wealth”), probably from Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”).

verb

  1. 1

    To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds.

Forms

plural
cheddars
past tense
cheddared
past participle
cheddared
present participle
cheddaring
third person singular
cheddars
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).