[cheez] 
| 1. | to stop; desist. |
| 2. | cheese it,
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| cheese 2 (chēz) tr.v. cheesed, chees·ing, chees·es Slang To stop. [Origin unknown.] |
cheese it
Stop, look out, as in Cheese it! Here come the cops! This term, generally stated as an imperative, may have been a replacement for the earlier "Stop at once." Eric Partridge speculated that it may have been a corruption of Cease! but its true origin is not known. [Slang; mid-1800s]
