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Free Cheese 

An expression for when you get something for free.

Originating from a band of Cornish smugglers who abandoned a load of cheese at the bottom of a beach, after not being able to carry it up the steep slope. The local villagers stole it before they could get back to it, creating the phrase "free cheese".
"Just got an extra chicken nugget, free cheese"
Free Cheese by 6EQUJ5 February 9, 2023

free cheese 

The main staple of the Great North American Negro , often found in handy 5 pound chunks .
Tyrone : "Say haw fo de free cheese , my nigga "

Rufus :" Fo sho nigga , get you some free cheese "
free cheese by Nancy Palousie November 12, 2006

Free Cheese Line 

originally referring to the welfare line where free cheese was passed out. Also refers to any type of government dole or handout i.e. unemployment, government housing, food stamps.
He was laid-off from work, so now he needs to stand in the free cheese line so he can pay his bills.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
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An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.
That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.
Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026
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