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square (meal)

a good and nutritious meal. (Always with quantifier when square is used without meal.) I need three squares a day—at least. The old beggar looks like he could use a square meal.

square

1. mod. old-fashioned; law-abiding; stodgy. Man, you are really square.

2. n. a person who behaves properly. You are a square if I ever saw one.

3. and square joint n. a tobacco cigarette, compared to a marijuana cigarette. I’ll take a reefer. I’ve heard that square joints will give you cancer.

4. tv. to settle or to make something right. Will twenty bucks square the matter?

5. Go to square (meal).

square

verb

See square meal

See:

• a round peg in a square hole
• a square meal
• a square peg
• back to square one
• back to the drawing board
• be on the square
• be out of square
• Be there or be square
• call square
• don't cut no ice
• fair and square
• go back to square one
• on the square
• out of square
• shoot straight
• square
• square accounts
• square apple
• square away
• square biscuit
• square deal
• square john
• square john broad
• square joint
• square meal
• square meal, a
• square off
• square one
• square one's shoulders
• square peg
• square peg in a round hole
• square rod
• square shooter
• square shoulders
• square the circle
• square up
• square up to
• square up with
• square with
• square with someone
• squared away
• squared up
• three squares
• three squares a day