单词 | meat ticket |
释义 | meat ticketn. 1. = meal ticket n. (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1870 |
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