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Swiss cheese

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Emmentaler, a Swiss cheese with many holes informal, uncountable
  2. 2
    hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland wordnet
  3. 3
    By extension, any cheese which resembles Emmentaler, especially ones with holes. colloquial, uncountable
  4. 4
    Something that is full of holes or vulnerabilities. colloquial, figuratively, uncountable

    ""If people really knew the extent to which the Internet is Swiss cheese, they would freak out," Fancher says. As with employee crime, the best protections against attacks by outsiders are matters of common sense, say security experts."

Verb
  1. 1
    To murder (someone) by shooting them full of holes; to shoot (someone) many times. slang, transitive

    "He will get Swiss cheesed."

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