rat-trap cheese

English

Etymology

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

Noun

rat-trap cheese (countable and uncountable, plural rat-trap cheeses)

1. (US, informal) Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.
   • 1951, Erskine Caldwell, Call it Experience: The Years of Learning how to Write, page 112:

     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 […]

See also

• mousetrap
• rat cheese