cheese-eater

A form of cheese eater — A rat; an informer who betrays colleagues.

Meanings

nouncheese-eater (plural cheese-eaters)

plural cheese-eaters

  1. alternativeAlternative 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
    2 more examples

    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

    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
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Chicago

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