verb
cheese
To smile broadly for a photograph.
The children cheese for the camera.
Etymology
Photographers ask people to say cheese because its vowel draws the mouth into a smilelike position. The verb names producing that broad, posed smile.
More examples
- She cheesed when her brother raised his phone.
- They were cheesing in every vacation picture.
- He has cheesed through three awkward family portraits.
Forms
cheese · cheeses · cheesed · cheesing