Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rat-trap cheese

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables: rat--trap cheese
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.

American usage; Countable; Informal; Uncountable

noun

Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.

American usage; Countable; Informal; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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[…]"

Etymology

So called because it might be used in baiting a trap.

Usage

Inflected Forms

rat-trap cheeses (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

mousetrap rattrap

Synonyms

rat cheese government cheese

Questions

What does rat-trap cheese mean?: Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.
Where does rat-trap cheese come from?: So called because it might be used in baiting a trap.

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