cheesecake
Americannoun
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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.
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Also called leg art. Informal. photographs featuring scantily clothed attractive women.
noun
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a rich tart with a biscuit base, filled with a mixture of cream cheese, cream, sugar, and often sultanas, sometimes having a fruit topping
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slang women displayed for their sex appeal, as in photographs in magazines, newspapers, or films Compare beefcake
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Etymology
Origin of cheesecake
1400–50; 1930–35, cheesecake for def. 2; late Middle English chese kake; see cheese 1, cake
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They left too full to eat any cheesecake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Still on my must-try list: a gingerbread-cranberry cheesecake trifle at Disneyland’s Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe and the gingerbread pancakes at River Belle Terrace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Skip the baklava and finish with the basque cheesecake.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
Restaurants are using caviar to create odd food combos and elevate unexpected dishes, adding the fish eggs to everything from cheesecake to chicken nuggets and hot dogs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
“Exactly. Eat your cheesecake, mi vida. You need to keep your strength up.”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
Eve Babitz — who was a close friend of 93-year-old Deanne Mencher, who still makes the cheesecakes at Dan Tana’s — was known for socializing at the restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
She asks the contestants to make six perfectly-baked individual cheesecakes with a caramelized white chocolate filling, biscuit crust, a layer of jelly and molded white chocolate decorations.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023
Cream cheese came to be incorporated in cheesecakes only in the 1920s and 30s.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2023
The comedy is inherent, onstage as on TV, in requiring folks from Chichester and Wembley to follow skeletal recipes for obscure Eastern European cheesecakes with unpronounceable names.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
About the time of Tiberius there lived a man named Apicius; very rich and luxurious; from whom several kinds of cheesecakes are called Apician.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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