white meat

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.
Also called light meat (for defs 1, 2).

Origin of white meat

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425

Words nearby white meat

white man's burden, white mariposa, white market, white marlin, white matter, white meat, white melilot, white metal, white meter, white mountains, white mulberry

Example sentences from the Web for light meat

British Dictionary definitions for light meat

white meat

noun

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