rat cheese

rat cheese
noun
informal names for American cheddar
Syn: ↑store cheese

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noun also rat-trap cheese

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Informal.
inexpensive cheese, esp. domestic cheddar.
[1935-40, Amer.; presumably so called because it is deemed suitable only for rattraps]

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rat cheese,
= Cheddar: (Cf.Cheddar) »

It is also known,…after one of its biggest fans, [as] rat cheese (New York Times).


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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