Cool, in a rugged wrong-side-of-the-tracks way. Comes from the S.E. Hinton novel The Outsiders. Oppose preppie, and differs significantly from tough.
You ain't tuff, and you never will be, ya preppie!
A cheesecake topped with cherry pie filling. Quite good.
The best cherry cheesecake can be found in New York City. Why do you think they call it New York cheesecake?
An imaginary number to be used when you have lost count of something and you need to verbally state a quantity.
Origin unknown.
Yes, I know you have rung the doorbell eleventy-seven times!
1) A fatherless child
2) (Strine) Term of friendship
2) Hey, Bruce, ya bastard, let's throw a couple of shrimp on the barbie!
Figurative: "What was said is the absolute truth and can be verified by a third party source." Comes from an obscure reference to cheques (or checks, if you're American), in that such is a guarantee that you can take the document to the bank and redeem it for its face value.
Note the pronoun 'it' can be varied accordingly.
"Mount Everest is the tallest geographical point on this planet, and you can take that to the bank."