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  • 1square 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 …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 2(a) square meal — a big meal that provides your body with all the different types of food it needs to stay healthy. Most of these supermodels don t look like they ve had a square meal in their life. If you re only eating a chocolate bar for lunch you need a good… …

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  • 3(a) square meal — a square meal informal phrase a large meal that makes you feel satisfied Thesaurus: types of mealhyponym Main entry: square * * * a square ˈmeal idiom a good, satisfying meal …

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  • 4square — /skwɛə / (say skwair) noun 1. a four sided plane having all its sides equal and all its angles right angles. 2. anything having this form or a form approximating it. 3. one of the rectangular or otherwise shaped divisions of a game board, as a… …

  • 5meal — W2S2 [mi:l] n [Sense: 1,3; Origin: Old English mAl time, meal ] [Sense: 2; Origin: Old English melu] 1.) an occasion when you eat food, for example breakfast or dinner, or the food that you eat on that occasion ▪ After the movie we went for a… …

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  • 6square — square1 W3S2 [skweə US skwer] adj ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(shape)¦ 2¦(angle)¦ 3 square metre/mile etc 4 5 feet/2 metres etc square 5¦(level)¦ 6 square meal 7¦(body)¦ 8 all square 9 (all) square 10 square deal …

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  • 7square — n., adj., adv., & v. n. 1 an equilateral rectangle. 2 a an object of this shape or approximately this shape. b a small square area on a game board. c a square scarf. d an academic cap with a stiff square top; a mortarboard. 3 a an open (usu. four …

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  • 8square — 1 adjective 1 SHAPE having four straight equal sides and 90º angles at the corners: a square flower bed 2 ANGLE forming a 90º angle: a square corner | a square jaw | square shoulders 3 square metre/mile etc an area of measurement equal to a… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 9square — I UK [skweə(r)] / US [skwer] noun [countable] Word forms square : singular square plural squares *** 1) a shape with four straight sides of equal length and four corners called right angles The garden has flower beds that form a perfect square.… …

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  • 10Square (slang) — pp semi protected|small=yesSquare used as slang may mean many things when referring to a person, or it may refer to a cigarette.The term square , in referring to a person, originally meant someone who was honest, traditional, and loyal. An… …

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