rat-trap cheese
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rat-trap cheese
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So called because it might be used in baiting a trap.
noun rat-trap cheeses
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Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.
Near-synonym: government cheese (sometimes humorously synonymous)
Similar: rat cheese, government cheese
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American cheese portrayed as such.
Similar: rat cheese, government cheese
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