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cheese-eater en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of cheese eater.
    • Of course the boys know you too well to mark you down for a cheese-eater. 2010, Ben Brady, Lance Lee, The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television, page 119:
    • If I motor-mouthed, I might say something against the other batos. That wouldn't do. I wasn't a cheese-eater, not even now when the shit was down. 1992, Miguel Durán, Don't Spit On My Corner, page 88:
    • You don't think we could afford to be boxed out of a deal like this on account of one lousy little cheese-eater, that Doyle bum, who goes round agitatin' and squalin' to that friggin' Crime Commission? 1954, Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront:

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cheese-eaters Number=Plur lexicographic