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cheek
Your two cheeks are on either side of your face below your eyes.
- When they met, they kissed on both cheeks.
- rosy cheeks
- chubby cheeks
- pink cheeks
- pale cheeks
Check out collocations with verbs
- kiss someone on the cheek
- slap someone on the cheek
Check out expressions
- They danced cheek to cheek.
(= with cheeks touching/very close) - He turned the other cheek. (= although someone
was rude to him, he did not respond)
- He said it with tongue in cheek.
(= not seriously)
Cheek can also mean behaviour that is rude or lacking in respect. The adjective is cheeky.
- She just called me old-fashioned and boring. What
a cheek!
(= it wasn't respectful) - You have a cheek. You haven't done any work, and now you ask me for money!
- They are very cheeky children. They are often rude to people older than them.
- Don't be cheeky!
- He has a very cheeky grin.
(= not respectful, but in an attractive way)
Check out related words
- chin
- rude
- naughty
- disrespectful
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