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cheesecake

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cheese⋅cake

[cheez-keyk]
–noun
1. Also, cheese cake. a cake having a firm custardlike texture, made with cream cheese, cottage cheese, or both, and sometimes topped with a jamlike fruit mixture.
2. Informal. Also called leg art. photographs featuring scantily clothed attractive women.

Origin:
1400–50; 1930–35, for def. 2; late ME chese kake; see cheese 1 , cake
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cheese·cake   (chēz'kāk')   
n.  
  1. A cake made of sweetened cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs, milk, sugar, and flavorings.

  2. Informal Photographs of minimally attired women.

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cheesecake

  1. n.
    a display of the female form, probably wearing little clothing, often in photographs. (See also beefcake.) : Women don't like to see all that cheesecake on the walls when they bring their cars in here to be fixed.
  2. n.
    a good-looking woman; good-looking women. : Who's the cheesecake in that low-cut job?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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