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cheese eating

cheese eating noun: the act of ratting on or informing. Also the alternative form of cheese-eating.

Noun

cheese eating (uncountable)

  1. (attributive, often) The act of ratting on or informing.
    • This officer's cheese eating had gone as far as to earn him a position on the "Wall of Cheese" that a widely-respected veteran police officer created and maintained in his office some time before our study.2007, Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, M.R. Haberfeld, Enhancing Police Integrity, page 71
    • He would be killed on sight like the cheese eating rat he was.2010, Daniell Harshaw, Bulletproof Love, page 184
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheese, eating.
    • To do this, we need information about you and your cheese eating habits.1992, Anna Marie Roberts, Sensory Attributes and Preferences for Cheddar Cheese, page 124

Also used as

cheese eating is also the alternative form of cheese-eating.

Forms of cheese eating

comparativemore cheese eating
superlativemost cheese eating

Questions about cheese eating

What does cheese eating mean?
Cheese eating means the act of ratting on or informing.
What part of speech is cheese eating?
Cheese eating is a noun.

Words near cheese eating in the dictionary

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

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