吃牢飯 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 吃牢饭 chīláofàn ㄔ ㄌㄠˊ ㄈㄢˋ to serve time in prison (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals) coll. Character by character 吃(chī)eat 牢(láo)pen 飯(fàn)cooked rice A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0