cheek

The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.countableuncountable

• There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper, / That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek: / Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world / Could turn so much the constitution / Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]

The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.countableinformalplural-normally

Impudence.figurativelyinformaluncountable

• You’ve got some cheek, asking me for money!

One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.countableinformaluncountable

One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.countableuncountable

• the cheeks of a vice
• the cheeks of a gun carriage

One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.; pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and downcountableuncountable

The branches of a bridle bit.countablein-pluraluncountable

Either side of an axehead.countableuncountable

The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.countableuncountable

To be impudent towards.

• Don't cheek me, you little rascal!

To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.

• Such horses might need to be "cheeked" for a while.
• Thurman caught the bridle headstall and cheeked the horse's head near his left knee when he swung aboard.

To put or keep something in one’s cheek.

• The squirrel cheeked some nuts before heading back to its nest.