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cheese eaters

cheese eaters is the plural 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.

Questions about cheese eaters

What is cheese eaters the plural of?
Cheese eaters is the plural of cheese eater.

Words near cheese eaters in the dictionary

  1. cheese doodles
  2. cheese down
  3. cheese dream
  4. cheese dreams
  5. cheese eater
  6. cheese eaters
  7. cheese eating
  8. cheese flies
  9. cheese fly
  10. cheese food
  11. cheese fries

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