rice bowl

English

Bowl containing rice

Etymology

rice +‎ bowl

Noun

rice bowl (plural rice bowls)

1. A small bowl from which rice is eaten.
2. A region that produces abundant rice.
3. A person's livelihood or source of income.
4. (slang) A jealously defended institutional resource such as a program, project, or budget.

Hypernyms

• (region): breadbasket (one sense), food bowl

Coordinate terms

• (region): breadbasket, granary

Derived terms

• iron rice bowl