Meanings
plural mozzarellas · plural mozzarelle
- slanguncountableAfrican-American VernacularMoney.
Ooh, yeah, stack that mozzarella, check a big bag / Smack it for an hour, off a thirty, let a bitch bad
2017 November 16, KirbLaGoop, “I Can’t Feel My Face”, in Trapped in Da 1003 more examples
Me no rat, I get hella cheddar, I get mozzarella / Take two hundred thousand out the bank ’cause I fucked the teller
2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)Tell a bank teller / This Louis my sweater / Came through with a Baretta / Stack my cheese, that mozzarella
2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Smokepurpp (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)I need the cheese, mozzarella / Rainin outside, I got a Louis umbrella / She ate up my dick like Nutella / I used to be four-fourin at the bank
2019 September 13, “Diamond Tester”, in ChaseTheMoney (lyrics), K$upreme & ChaseTheMoney (music), Caught FireSynonyms: cheese, cheddar, ackers, bees and honey, blunt, bones, brass, bread
Synonyms & antonyms
nounMoney.
Origin
- Latinmutilare
- Italianmozzarella
- Englishmozzarella
Borrowed from Italian mozzarella, from mozzare (“to cut off”), from Latin mutilare. The meaning of money derives from the early Bay Area hip-hop scene since early and is found for various food terms, including cheddar and cheese.
More words from Italian, Latin
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Arabic مُوزَارِيلَا
- مُوزَارِيلَا (mūzārīlā)soft Italian cheese
Chinese Cantonese 水牛芝士
- 水牛芝士soft Italian cheese
Chinese Mandarin 馬蘇里拉 /马苏里拉
- 馬蘇里拉 /马苏里拉 (mǎsūlǐlā)soft Italian cheese
Czech mozzarella
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
Dutch mozzarella
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
Esperanto mocarelo
- mocarelosoft Italian cheese
Finnish mozzarella, hillo
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
- hillofood-related slang term for money
French mozzarelle, mozzarella
- mozzarellesoft Italian cheese
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
German Mozzarella
- Mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
Greek μοτσαρέλα
- μοτσαρέλα (motsaréla)soft Italian cheese
Italian mozzarella
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
Japanese モッツァレラ, モツァレラ
- モッツァレラ (mottsarera)soft Italian cheese
- モツァレラ (motsarera)soft Italian cheese
- モザレラ (mozarera)soft Italian cheese
- モッツァレッラ (mottsarerra)soft Italian cheese
Korean 모차렐라, 모짜렐라
- 모차렐라 (mocharella)soft Italian cheese
- 모짜렐라 (mojjarella)soft Italian cheese
Norwegian Bokmål mozzarella
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
Polish mozzarella, kapucha
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
- kapuchafood-related slang term for money
Portuguese muçarela, mozarela
- muçarelasoft Italian cheese
- mozarelasoft Italian cheese
Russian моцаре́лла
- моцаре́лла (mocarɛ́lla)soft Italian cheese
Spanish mozzarella, musarela
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
- musarelasoft Italian cheese
- muzarelasoft Italian cheese
- muzarellasoft Italian cheese
- muzzarellasoft Italian cheese
Swedish mozzarella
- mozzarellasoft Italian cheese
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with mozzarella
Cite this entry
mozzarella. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mozzarella
“mozzarella.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mozzarella. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mozzarella,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mozzarella.
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