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- verb Present participle of
cheek .
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Examples
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I couldn’t tell if Andrew was “tongue in cheeking it” or serious.
Think Progress » BREAKING: McClellan Offers Classic Non-Denial Denial to NY Daily News Story 2005
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One minute before this he was an irresponsible baby "cheeking" Moles White; now he was the germinal man, borne down with the weight of life.
Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931
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One main source of excitement for us was "cheeking" people in vans and carts upon the Goudhurst road; and getting myself into a monstrous white mess in the chalk pits beyond the village, and catching yellow jaundice as a sequel to bathing stark naked with three other Adamites, old Ewart leading that function, in the rivulet across Hickson's meadows, are among my memorabilia.
Tono Bungay 1906
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New York, might have been seen a wisp of a girl "cheeking" a manager into giving her a situation on the strength of her being Irish.
The Lion's Mouse 1901
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Or -- it was just possible that, instead of exciting resentment she had won his respect by "cheeking" him.
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He begins, like Dinarzade, [307] by "cheeking" the Sultan on his views of matrimony; and then he tells how he set out from his dominions in quest of adventures, and met another bearer of the remarkable name which his mother had insisted on giving him.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Corrections officials throughout the country have long suspected that some inmates were either using the pills to get loaded, or "cheeking" them in order to later sell them to other prisoners to chop up and snort.
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Got cheeking on the 6.5 Creedmoor, has the same trajectory as a 300 Win Mag and sounds like it can be chamered in an AR!
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Got cheeking on the 6.5 Creedmoor, has the same trajectory as a 300 Win Mag and sounds like it can be chamered in an AR!
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Got cheeking on the 6.5 Creedmoor, has the same trajectory as a 300 Win Mag and sounds like it can be chamered in an AR!
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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If your teen begins “cheeking” her pills (not swallowing them), ask your clinician about switching to a liquid formulation.
Teens with ADHD Need Scaffolds and Structure: How Not to Helicopter Parent Meg Leahy, MS, NCC, BCC 2021
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