Cheek n.
  1. The side of the face below the eye.
  2. The cheek bone. [Obs.]
  3. pl. Mech. Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
  4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit.
  5. Founding A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
  6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang]
  Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef.
  Cheek bone Anat. the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone.
  Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate.
  Cheek pouch Zool., a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.
  Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block.
  Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest.
  Cheek tooth Anat., a hinder or molar tooth.
  Butment cheek. See under Butment.
  cheek pouch
       n : a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a
           gopher)