Meaning of rat-trap cheese | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.
   US, countable, informal, uncountable
2. American cheese portrayed as such.
   US, countable, informal, uncountable

Examples

“Near-synonym: government cheese (sometimes humorously synonymous)”

“Having spent twice as much money as I had intended during the first month in New York, I tried to live even more frugally than I had earlier in the year. I still ate rye bread and rat-trap cheese in my room, but less of it[…]”

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