CHEEK


Meaning of CHEEK in English

(~s)

1.

Your ~s are the sides of your face below your eyes.

Tears were running down her ~s...

She kissed him lightly on both ~s.

N-COUNT

-~ed

...rosy-~ed children.

COMB in ADJ

2.

You say that someone has a ~ when you are annoyed or shocked at something unreasonable that they have done. (INFORMAL)

I’m amazed they had the ~ to ask in the first place...

I still think it’s a bit of a ~ sending a voucher rather than a refund...

The ~ of it, lying to me like that!

N-SING: also no det, oft the N to-inf

3.

If you turn the other ~ when someone harms or insults you, you do not harm or insult them them in return.

PHRASE: V inflects

4.

~ by jowl: see jowl

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .