white meat

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noun
  1. any meat that is light-colored before cooking, as veal or chicken (distinguished from red meat).

  2. meat that is light-colored after cooking, as veal or breast of chicken or of turkey (distinguished from dark meat).

  1. Slang: Vulgar. a white person considered as a sexual partner.

  2. Southern U.S. salt pork, fatback, or other pork without any lean.

  3. Archaic. food made from milk.

Origin of white meat

1
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
  • Also called light meat (for defs. 1, 2).

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British Dictionary definitions for white meat

white meat

noun
  1. any meat that is light in colour, such as veal or the breast of turkey: Compare red meat

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