What does cheese-eater mean?

cheese-eater

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

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

cheese-eaters (plural)

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