white meat

white meat
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).
3. Slang (vulgar). a white person considered as a sexual partner.
4. Southern U.S. salt pork, fatback, or other pork without any lean.
5. Archaic. food made from milk. Also called light meat (for defs. 1, 2).
[1375-1425; late ME]

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