cheese-head

British

adjective

denoting or relating to a screw or bolt with a cylindrical slotted head

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Example Sentences

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Musk was everywhere, wearing a cheese-head hat and running contests to give away million-dollar checks.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

The chance to play for McDermott was an added bonus for former Manly junior Offerdahl, whose father was in the US Army and hails from Madison, Wisconsin, “dairy-famer, cheese-head country”.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2015

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is going from cheese-head country to cheese-steak country on Tuesday as his presidential campaign tour rolls through Philadelphia.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2015

I may be a cheese-head, but I don’t see why you sold your stock, anyhow.

From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

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