meal ticket

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synonyms for meal ticket

On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to meal ticket, such as: cash cow, financial support, grubstaker, patron, staker, and supporter.

How to use meal ticket in a sentence

  • He meant to ask for a meal ticket, but the seemingly proper moment never came, and he decided to pay himself that night.

    Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser
  • You've always been ace-high with me, and there never will come the day when you can't eat on my meal-ticket.

    The Trail of '98 | Robert W. Service
  • For he had said frankly that when he received his discharge from the Army he would have to dig up a job to get a meal ticket.

    The Pagan Madonna | Harold MacGrath
  • I note by the papers that you have served your bit and are now out again digging around for your own meal ticket.

    Within Prison Walls | Thomas Mott Osborne
  • Now worked around the Army Hotel and received in return his bed and one meal ticket a day.

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