cheese-eater

English

Noun

cheese-eater (plural cheese-eaters)

1. Alternative form of cheese eater
   • 1954, Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront:

     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?

   • 1992, Miguel Durán, Don't Spit On My Corner, page 88:

     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.

   • 2010, Ben Brady, Lance Lee, The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television, page 119:

     Of course the boys know you too well to mark you down for a cheese-eater.