American cheese

Definitions

1. 1

   A common processed cheese, yellow or white in color and mild in flavor, with a…

   A common processed cheese, yellow or white in color and mild in flavor, with a medium-firm consistency.

   • Near-synonyms: rat-trap cheese, rat cheese, government cheese
   • Many of you other brothers can't deny that American cheese on white bread with yellow mustard is a guilty pleasure that reminds us of our childhood.
   • The end result of such efforts is something akin to processed American cheese: smooth, odor-free and entirely without taste.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see American, cheese: any cheese made in America.

   • The opinions on importation of American wheat and steel did not seem as negative as those against importation of American cheese and beer.

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