cheek

1 noun

1 (C) the soft round area of flesh on each side of your face below your eye: Would you let him kiss you on the cheek? | the smooth pink cheeks of a baby

2 (singular, uncountable) BrE disrespectful or rude behaviour, especially towards someone in a position of authority: I've had enough of that boy's cheek. | have the cheek to do sth: Billy had the cheek to say it was boring round here, right in front of Nan. | have a cheek: They've got a cheek, charging her for a call when it's her own phone!

3 what a cheek! BrE spoken used to show surprise that someone has behaved rudely or without enough respect

4 cheek by jowl if people live or work cheek by jowl they live or work very close together: Families were living cheek by jowl in impossible conditions.

5 cheek to cheek if two people dance cheek to cheek, they dance very close to each other in a romantic way

6 turn the other cheek to deliberately avoid reacting in an angry or violent way when someone has hurt or upset you

7 (C) informal one of the two soft fleshy parts of your bottom; buttock

8 red-cheeked/hollow-cheeked/rosy-cheeked etc having red, hollow etc cheeks: He was a merry-faced, ruddy-cheeked little man.

-see also: tongue in cheek tongue (3) 2 verb (T) BrE to speak rudely or disrespectfully to someone, especially to someone older such as your teacher or parents; sass AmE: Don't you cheek your mother like that! Go and apologise!