cheek
cheek
- n either side of the face below the eyes
- n an impudent statement
- n either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump
- n impudent aggressiveness
- v speak impudently to
- By the end of the sixth round, the cut on Jeby's cheek was an ugly purple welt, his large, hooked nose was bleeding and everyone in the crowd of 12,000 except his managers knew .
- When Branch Rickey first met with Jackie about joining the Dodgers, he told him that for three years he would have to turn the other cheek and silently suffer all the vile things .
- Blood was gushing from a fist-size bullet wound in King's right cheek.