white meat
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noun
any meat that is light-colored before cooking, as veal or chicken (distinguished from red meat).
meat that is light-colored after cooking, as veal or breast of chicken or of turkey (distinguished from dark meat).
Slang: Vulgar. a white person considered as a sexual partner.
Southern U.S. salt pork, fatback, or other pork without any lean.
Archaic. food made from milk.
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Origin of white meat
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
Also called light meat (for defs 1, 2).
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Examples from the Web for light meat
Don't you think you can say which is the dark-meat and which is the white-meat poet?
The Poet at the Breakfast Table|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
white meat
noun
any meat that is light in colour, such as veal or the breast of turkeyCompare red meat
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white meat
meat of poultry, pigs, etc., as opposed to red meat, is recorded from 1752; earlier it meant "foods prepared from milk" (early 15c.). Black slang sense of "white women as sex partners" is from 1920s.
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