cheese eating

cheese eating (uncountable)

1. (often used attributively) The act of ratting on or informing.
   • 2007, Carl B. Klockars, ‎Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, ‎M.R. Haberfeld, Enhancing Police Integrity, page 71:

     This officer's cheese eating had gone as far as to earn him a position on the "Wall of Cheese" that a widely-respected veteran police officer created and maintained in his office some time before our study.

   • 2010, Daniell Harshaw, Bulletproof Love, page 184:

     He would be killed on sight like the cheese eating rat he was.

   • 2014, No More Games:

     She wondered how much he knew about what she was doing because there was not telling what his cheese eating cousin Bo told him.

2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see cheese,‎ eating.
   • 1992, Anna Marie Roberts, Sensory Attributes and Preferences for Cheddar Cheese, page 124:

     To do this, we need information about you and your cheese eating habits.

cheese eating (comparative more cheese eating, superlative most cheese eating)

1. Alternative form of cheese-eating
   • 2014, William T. Stewart, Dark South: And Other Strange Tales, page 375:

     Wiggins had a cheese eating grin on his face.