cheese out

[Drew Danielson]

I am familiar with/have been known to used "cheese out" as synonymous
with "flake out" or "flake".  As in:

X couldn't make it.  I am not sure if he's sick or if he's cheesing out
[or flaking out, or flaking] on us.

Maybe it was just a case of in-group slang among my rather odd bunch of
friends in State College PA in the late 80s/early 90s.  We all thought
that cheese was funny stuff back then....