dark meat

noun

1. meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey ( white meat ).
2. Slang: Vulgar. a Black person, considered as a sexual partner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dark meat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

About 40 minutes later, the dark meat is reliably juicy, the vegetables golden and bathed in rendered chicken fat, and both take about the same amount of time.

From Seattle Times

Order breast meat, and find it uniformly, almost uncannily tender; the dark meat is a study in succulence, with richness provided by more variation in texture.

From Seattle Times

Longtime judge Tom Colicchio asked his group to roast a whole chicken and compose a dish with both white and dark meat.

From Salon

During their visit the day before his execution, Hancock had seemed mostly fixated on his final meal, that one bucket of dark meat chicken.

From New York Times

We mostly agree on the deliciousness of pumpkin pie, say, but are split over the eternal turkey question of dark meat versus white meat.

From Seattle Times