Swiss cheese

English Swiss cheese|150px|thumb Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Swiss cheese.wav US Noun ~ en informal en Emmentaler, a Swiss cheese with many holes. en Switzerland en colloquial By extension, any cheese which resembles Emmentaler, especially ones with holes. en figurative colloquial Something that is full of holes or vulnerabilities. en 1999 Mark Fisch Criminology, 1999-2000 103 "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. en 2004 InfoWorld 26 13 26 surprise and frustration when systems ultimately decay into a block of security Swiss cheese. Derived terms en Swiss-cheesed Swiss cheese plant Translations cheese with holes Arabic: ar جبنة سويسرية Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 瑞士起司 Ruìshì qǐsī, cmn 瑞士奶酪 Ruìshì nǎilào Danish: da schweizerost c Dutch: nl Zwitserse kaas Finnish: fi emmentaljuusto Georgian: ka შვეიცარიული ყველი German: de schweizer Käse Greek: el ελβετικό τυρί n Hawaiian: haw waiūpaʻa Kuikilani Hindi: hi स्विस पनीर m Irish: ga cáis Eilvéiseach f Norwegian: Bokmål: nb sveitserost m Nynorsk: nn sveitserost m Polish: pl ser szwajcarski m Portuguese: pt queijo suíço m Romanian: ro șvaițer n Russian: ru швейцарский сыр m Spanish: es queso suizo m Swedish: sv schweizerost c Yiddish: yi שווייצער קעז m Verb en transitive slang AAVE usually passive To kill (someone) by inflicting multiple gunshot wounds; to discharge a firearm repeatedly at an individual. en He will get Swiss cheesed. Further reading en Cheeses Violence en terms derived from toponyms