mozzarella

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UK/mɒt.səˈɹɛl.ə/US/mɑt.səˈɹɛl.ə/US, uncommon/mʌt.səˈɹɛl.ə/US/mut.səˈɹɛl.ə/

noun

Soft Italian or Italian-style cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.

Less commonScrabble 30

Meanings

nounmozzarella (countable and uncountable, plural mozzarellas or mozzarelle)

plural mozzarellas · plural mozzarelle

  1. countableuncountableSoft Italian or Italian-style cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.
  2. 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 100
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    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 Fire

    Synonyms: cheese, cheddar, ackers, bees and honey, blunt, bones, brass, bread

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Origin

  1. Latinmutilare
  2. Italianmozzarella
  3. 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.

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Translations

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

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APA

mozzarella. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mozzarella

MLA

“mozzarella.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mozzarella. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mozzarella,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mozzarella.

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