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square meals

square meals is the plural of square meal.

Meaning of square meal

Noun

square meal (plural square meals)

  1. (idiomatic) A (nutritionally) complete and satisfying meal, especially one suitable for a person performing physical labour.
    • Three square meals a day should give you plenty of energy.
    Synonyms:
    square
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see square, meal.
    • [Figure 2.5] Simulation of overheating effects for two meals of different geometries […] Left: square meal (13 cm × 13 cm with corner diameter 2 cm and height 6 cm).2020, B. Wäppling Raaholt, “Influence of food geometry and dielectric properties on heating performance”, in Ulrich Erle, Peter Pesheck, Matthew Lorence, editors, Development of Packaging and...

Questions about square meals

What is square meals the plural of?
Square meals is the plural of square meal.

Words near square meals in the dictionary

  1. square legs
  2. square matrices
  3. square matrix
  4. square matrixes
  5. square meal
  6. square meals
  7. square meter
  8. square meters
  9. square metre
  10. square metres
  11. square mile

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