"cheek up to" meaning in English

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      "form": "cheeked up to",
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          "ref": "2001 November 17, Muriel Spark, All the Stories of Muriel Spark, New Directions Publishing, page 44",
          "text": "She thought of her sister Elizabeth with her eight, and remembered that one who cheeked up to the teachers, so pretty and sulky and shabby, ...",
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          "ref": "2012 March 20, Muriel Spark, Reality and Dreams: A Novel, Open Road Media",
          "text": "I suppose the nursing home was glad to get rid of him. He made passes at the youngest nurses and cheeked up to the older ones.",
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        "To act disrespectfully toward (someone)."
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        "(transitive, informal) To act disrespectfully toward (someone)."
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          "word": "cheek up"
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  "word": "cheek up to"
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      "form": "cheeks up to",
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        "(transitive, informal) To act disrespectfully toward (someone)."
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