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cheese-eater

cheese-eater is the alternative form of cheese eater.

Meaning of cheese eater

Noun

cheese eater (plural cheese eaters)

  1. A rat; an informer who betrays colleagues.
    • As a "stool pigeon," or what the corrupt union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) calls a "cheese eater," Terry now feels totally dejected and alone, even though the murder by the mob of his brother, Charley "the Gent" (Rod Steiger) helped motivate him to testify.1998, Sam B. Girgus, Samuel Bruce Girgus, Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan, page 155
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheese, eater. One who eats cheese.

Forms of cheese-eater

pluralcheese-eaters

Questions about cheese-eater

What is cheese-eater the alternative form of?
Cheese-eater is the alternative form of cheese eater.

Words near cheese-eater in the dictionary

  1. cheese wires
  2. cheese with that whine
  3. cheese with your wine
  4. cheese-box
  5. cheese-boxes
  6. cheese-eater
  7. cheese-eaters
  8. cheese-eating
  9. cheese-eating surrender monkey
  10. cheese-eating surrender monkeys
  11. cheese-head

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