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  • adjective informal Containing many holes, like Swiss cheese.

Etymologies

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Swiss cheese +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • In a city knitted together by hundreds of bridges and crisscrossed by streets famously Swiss-cheesed by potholes, the program was an instant success.

    Pittsburgh Stars at the G20 2009

  • But with the carnage that had occurred during the invasion and the continued depredations by the demons, most of the buildings in the area stood Swiss-cheesed with holes and gaps.

    Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

  • As the tax code has been embellished and then Swiss-cheesed, the portion of Americans footing the nation's income tax bill has shrunk.

    Local News from Tuscaloosa News 2009

  • Imagine Respighi's Pines of Rome Swiss-cheesed through a kaleidoscope, and you'll get the idea.

    AvaxHome RSS: Piterets 2008

  • Young, Scott Lawrence, Robert Symonds, Candy Ann Brown, Nick Brooks, Lee Garlington Awards: Emmy Nominations: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell Leaping into Sam Bederman, a mental patient who is suffering from acute depression, Sam receives an overloaded electroshock treatment, which causes his Swiss-cheesed memory to be replaced by personas from previous leaps.

    EPISODE GUIDE: Quantum Leap v4.6 by Anita Kilgour 1993

  • Ten miles west of downtown, in Jefferson Parish, where River Ridge butts up against the Mississippi River, streets in many neighborhoods are becoming rivers, and Swiss-cheesed rooftops look as if they’ve been attacked by a meteor shower.

    Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007

  • Ten miles west of downtown, in Jefferson Parish, where River Ridge butts up against the Mississippi River, streets in many neighborhoods are becoming rivers, and Swiss-cheesed rooftops look as if they’ve been attacked by a meteor shower.

    Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007

  • (I said it would be Swiss-cheesed to death; maybe I should have said it would be overcome by

    Concurring Opinions 2009

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