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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]

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