cheese cutter
n.— «Some motorcyclists are wary of the tensioned wires in the new guardrails. “In the motorcycle world, in our vernacular, we call those cheese cutters.…They could have a guillotine effect on a motorcyclist’s body.”» —“Road to Safety” by Pierrette J. Shields Daily Times-Call (Longmont, Colo.) June 12, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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