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Definition of tongue in cheek

tongue in cheek

adjective

  • not to be taken seriously.
                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                                

    Citation from "A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret", NPR, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, June 29, 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Jun 30 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'cheek':

Definitions include: to leave quickly; "haul ass".
Definitions include: a buttock.
Definitions include: to raise one buttock and to then flatuate.
Definitions include: diarrhea.

Other terms relating to 'in':

Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: involving everyone or everything.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: no chance.
Definitions include: something easy.
Definitions include: at some time before the present.
Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
Definitions include: included.
Definitions include: clitoris.
Definitions include: to intrude.
Definitions include: See barge in.
Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury
Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."

Other terms relating to 'tongue':

Definitions include: to restrain one's self, and not say something that one wants to say.
Definitions include: to kiss each other in a constantly and wild..
Definitions include: about to be remembered.
Definitions include: to French kiss.
Definitions include: tongue used during a French kiss.
Definitions include: the pretention, both verbal and physical, toward expertise in the martial arts by someone who lacks such ability.
Definitions include: to kiss with tongue contact.
Definitions include: to stimulate with the tongue.
Definitions include: to stimulate the anus sexually with one's tongue.
Definitions include: Lick a woman's ass
Definitions include: A hand and tongue gesture when a man wants to give a woman oral pleasure. Compare to: Cunnalingous,or Oral pleasure.
Definitions include: to kiss passionately.

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