American cheese

English

Noun

American cheese (countable and uncountable, plural American cheeses)

A common processed cheese, yellow or white in colour and mild in flavour, with a medium-firm consistency.
Synonyms: rat cheese, store cheese
- 1977 August 13, Paula Bennet, “By Her Own Admission — Soap for Straights”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 6, page 9:
  The end result of such efforts is something akin to processed American cheese: smooth, odor-free and entirely without taste.

Translations

common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency

Dutch: Amerikaanse kaas
Finnish: sulatejuusto (fi)
German: Sandwichkäse m, Toastkäse m (roughly equivalent)
Portuguese: queijo americano m
Romainian: brânză americană
Ukrainian: Американський сир (Amerykansʹkyj syr)

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