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square meal, a square mealA wholesome, filling, and nutritious meal. What I really need is a hot shower, a square meal, and a full night's sleep. There's a lot of debate at the moment about whether three square meals is better than a lot of smaller meals throughout the day.See also: meal, squaresquare meal, aA substantial or complete meal, as in These airlines never feed you; I haven't had a square meal on one yet. [Mid-1800s] See also: squarea square meal A square meal is a large, healthy meal that makes you feel you have eaten enough. The troops were tired and hadn't had a square meal for five days. Do you survive on yogurt at lunchtime while your partner wants a square meal? Note: On sailing ships in the past, sailors ate off square wooden plates. See also: meal, squarea square ˈmeal a large and satisfying meal: The children get three square meals a day.See also: meal, squaresquare (meal) n. a good and nutritious meal. (Always with quantifier when square is used without meal.) I need three squares a day—at least. The old soak looks like he could use a square meal. See also: meal, squaresquare meal, aA substantial and nourishing repast. A mid-nineteenth-century Americanism, the term appears in humorist Stephen Leacock’s Literary Lapses (1910): “Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.”See also: square |