Entry · catalog no. 4175
cheese
/ — /pending
noun · nationwide · 2026
✓ Verified
1.
Money.
“They out here chasing cheese seven days a week.”
Origin & Attribution
Part of a long line of Black vernacular that turns food into finance, alongside "bread" and "dough." In wide hip-hop use by 2000, as on Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'."
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
nationwide · 2026
Spoken by
nationwide
$CHEESEThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Revolt, "Hip Hop slang words for money" — article
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+ Cite a source"Big Pimpin'" — Jay-Z, "Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter" — song · 2000
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