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☆ meal ticket

  1. a ticket entitling the holder to a specified value in meals at a particular restaurant
  2. Slang a person, job, skill, etc. that one depends on as one's means of support

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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