meal ticket in English
noun
1
a person or thing that is used as a source of regular income.
the violin was going to be my meal ticket
noun
luncheon voucher
Use "meal ticket" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "meal ticket" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "meal ticket", or refer to the context using the word "meal ticket" in the English Dictionary.
1. I don't intend to be a meal-ticket for anyone.
2. Broad is derived from the far-fetched metaphor of ‘meal ticket,’ signifying a female provider for a pimp, from the fanciful correspondence of a meal ticket to a railroad or other ticket
3. Well, Anyhow, he's here so much we ought to be chargin' him for his meal-ticket