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单词 meat ticket
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meat ticketn.

Brit. /ˈmiːt ˌtɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈmit ˌtɪkᵻt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: meat n., ticket n.1
Etymology: < meat n. + ticket n.1 With sense 1 compare slightly earlier meal ticket n.
1. = meal ticket n. (literal and figurative).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > source of
meat ticket1870
meal ticket1899
1870 Catholic World Oct. 51/1 How often are meat-tickets (each worth from 1 franc to 50 centimes) kept until several will cover the expense of a fine beefsteak and a bottle of wine!
1936 P. Bottome Level Crossing xvi. 192 He'd better not try to settle too much on my meat ticket!
1997 Skiing Trade News (Nexis) Mar. 68 Soopkich'n derives its name from the fact that over the past few years it has been the meat ticket for a group of struggling snowboarders.
2. Military slang (chiefly Australian and U.S.). An identity disc.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > [noun] > paper or disc
card1749
papers1796
legitimation1870
dog tag1882
identity papers1889
identity certificate1891
identification tag1893
identity card1900
identification1906
identity disc1907
identification disc1914
disca1918
meat ticket1919
warrant card1920
carte d'identité1923
ID1937
ID card1937
reference book1952
1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 33 Meat Ticket, (or Dead Meat Ticket)—an identification disc.
1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 307/2 Meat-ticket, wrist-tag for purposes of identification; ‘dog-tag’.
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 117 Meat ticket, identity disc.
1993 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 10 Nov. a17 On June 14, 1917, wearing his ‘cold meat ticket’, the red tag for identifying the slain, he went where no one wanted to go, the charnel house of Flanders.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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