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cheesecake

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈt͡ʃiːzˌkeɪk//
  • United States//ˈt͡ʃizˌkeɪk//
  • //ˈt͡ʃɛzˌkeɪk//
  • //ˈt͡ʃɪzˌkeɪk//

A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.

noun

  1. 1

    A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.

    Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).

  3. 3

    Imagery of scantily clad, sexually attractive young women; pin-ups.

    Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.

Etymology

From Middle English chesekake; equivalent to cheese + cake. Compare chess cake.

Forms

plural
cheesecakes
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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).