cheesecake
Americannoun
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cheesecakes
plural
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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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Sitting in front of rows of cookbooks at her Manhattan apartment, she spoke to us about her new media venture, how to dress up store-bought cheesecake and her trick for achieving perfectly creamy scrambled eggs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Other examples include combinations like purple sweet potato ice cream, cheesecake with carrot compote, or chocolate bars loaded with salty potato chips.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
They left too full to eat any cheesecake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
“So, Matthew,” she said, scooping potatoes with a spoon, and eating a little at a time, like cheesecake.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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
It only improves as it ages and settles and thanks to the topping, it never cracks or folds in on itself like some cheesecakes are prone to do.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
Mukhopadhyay's cheesecake is a far cry from cheesecakes we are familiar with today that are made with soft, satiny dollops of cream cheese.
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
Then there were sounds of cheesecakes too Crush'd in men's hungry jaws: While the boys play'd with dainty bits Of tripe, and paunch, and liver.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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