Meanings
plural meal tickets
- A ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.
Volunteers are provided with a meal ticket for every four hours of service.
Synonyms: bread ticket
- figurativelySomeone or something that provides income or livelihood, especially as an exploited source.
I don't enjoy this job, but it is my meal ticket.
1 more example
And I gotta get a meal ticket / To survive, you need a meal ticket
1975, Bernie Taupin, Elton John, “(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket”, in Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, performed by Elton JohnSynonyms: bread ticket
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.
nounSomeone or something that provides income or livelihood, especially as an exploited source.
More synonyms by meaning
nouncoupon redeemable at a restaurant and entitling the holder to a meal
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 飯票 /饭票
- 飯票 /饭票 (fànpiào)an exploited source of income or livelihood
Finnish ruokalipuke, leipä
- ruokalipukea voucher for food
- leipäan exploited source of income or livelihood
French ticket-restaurant, ticket-repas
- ticket-restauranta voucher for food
- ticket-repasa voucher for food
- bona voucher for food
- ticketa voucher for food
- coupona voucher for food
- gagne-painan exploited source of income or livelihood
- gogoan exploited source of income or livelihood
- pigeonan exploited source of income or livelihood
Italian tagliando, gonzo
- tagliandoa voucher for food
- gonzoan exploited source of income or livelihood
- polloan exploited source of income or livelihood
Japanese 食券
- 食券 (shokken)a voucher for food
Korean 밥줄
- 밥줄 (bapjul)an exploited source of income or livelihood
Norwegian matbong
- matbonga voucher for food
Polish talon na posiłek, źródło utrzymania
- talon na posiłeka voucher for food
- źródło utrzymaniaan exploited source of income or livelihood
Russian ка́рточка, тало́н m на пита́ние
- ка́рточка (kártočka)a voucher for food
- тало́н m на пита́ние (talón)a voucher for food
- корми́лец (kormílec)an exploited source of income or livelihood
Spanish vale, cupón
- valea voucher for food
- cupóna voucher for food
- harina de billetesa voucher for food
- primoan exploited source of income or livelihood
Turkish ekmek parası
- ekmek parasıan exploited source of income or livelihood
Cite this entry
meal ticket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meal%20ticket
“meal ticket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meal%20ticket. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “meal ticket,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meal%20ticket.
Source: meal ticket on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.