cheese

cheese
 n.— «“Of course, he gave me cheese,” she said, using a slang term for money. “I didn’t even want it, though.”» —“Videotape shows suspect telling role in triple slaying” by Michelle E. Shaw Tennessean (Nashville) Sept. 23, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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