cheese off

verb

To annoy.

Meanings

verbcheese off (third-person singular simple present cheeses off, present participle cheesing off, simple past and past participle cheesed off)

present singular third person cheeses off · participle present cheesing off · participle past cheesed off · past cheesed off

  1. slangtransitiveTo annoy.

    Sony management […] is 'fixing' one part of the triangle at the cost of the other two. This cheeses off software makers more than you can imagine, and it also cheeses off customers.

    2007 February 25, Charlie Demerjian, “Sony Euro PS3 debacle risks a major fire storm”, in Inquirer, UK, retrieved 23 Feb 2009

    Synonyms: piss off, pee off, tee off, tick off, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle

Synonyms & antonyms

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