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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And when the dinner calls for something rich and indulgent, The Cheesecake Factory’s tiramisu cheesecake, available frozen through Harry & David, combines the best of cheesecake and tiramisu in a rich, coffee-forward treat.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
People munched on cheese cubes and cheesecake bites or fanned themselves in the shade, watching on big screen televisions as the old guard said their goodbyes inside the council chambers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
For dessert, he will whip up a healthy pumpkin cheesecake made of high-protein muffin mix and low-fat cottage cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 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
This week’s recommendations include savory cheesecakes in Pasadena and Pico-Robertson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
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
At first, New York cheesecakes helped open the necessary doors.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Varied hyphenation was retained: antechambers, ante-chambers; atop, a-top; cheesecakes, cheese-cakes; Cockpit, Cock-pit; Footguards, Foot-guards; Gatehouse, Gate-house; nowadays, now-a-days; Shrovetide, Shrove-tide.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
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