Usually means: Cheese with holes, from Switzerland.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word swiss cheese:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swiss cheese, Swiss cheese: Merriam-Webster
  2. Swiss cheese: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Swiss cheese: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Swiss cheese: Vocabulary.com
  5. Swiss-cheese, swiss-cheese: Wordnik
  6. Swiss cheese: Wiktionary
  7. Swiss cheese: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Swiss cheese: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. swiss cheese: Dictionary.com
  10. Swiss cheese (North America), Swiss cheese (disambiguation), Swiss cheese (mathematics), Swiss cheese: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Swiss cheese: Rhymezone
  12. swiss cheese: FreeDictionary.org
  13. swiss cheese: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Swiss cheese: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Swiss cheese: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See swiss_cheeses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Swiss cheese)

noun:  (informal) Synonym of Emmentaler, a Swiss cheese with many holes
noun:  (colloquial) By extension, any cheese which resembles Emmentaler, especially ones with holes.
noun:  (figurative, colloquial) Something that is full of holes or vulnerabilities.
verb:  (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, usually passive voice) To murder (someone) by shooting them full of holes; to shoot (someone) many times.

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