square meal

1. 1.

   a substantial and nourishing meal

   “he seldom got three square meals a day”

   Broadermeal

Questions about square meal

What does square meal mean?

square meal means "a substantial and nourishing meal".

Is square meal a common word?

square meal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.