单词 | dark meat |
释义 | dark meatn. 1. Darker-coloured cuts of meat, esp. the thigh or leg meat of chicken or turkey. Also (more rarely): meat which is red when raw such as beef or lamb (as opposed to chicken, veal, etc.). Cf. red meat n. 1, white meat n. 2. ΚΠ 1848 Knickerbocker Jan. 57 The appearance of these birds created a general guffaw through the whole town. Here was ‘white’ and ‘dark meat’ enough for nine hundred patriarchs to carve up for their posterities. 1898 O. A. Cotton Chafing Dish Recipes No. 21 A simple sauce for warming dark meat, as mutton, venison, and duck, is made of equal parts of butter, catsup and sherry. 2018 New Yorker 19 Nov. 15/2 Buttery hunks of tender dark meat and bright, clear notes of ginger, garlic, and fresh tomato. 2. U.S. slang (derogatory). A black or dark-skinned person regarded as a sexual object; black or dark-skinned people considered collectively, regarded as sexual objects. ΚΠ 1849 N.Y. Herald 20 June (Morning ed.) As for these white women fancying black men, that is a mere matter of taste; they say dark meat is as good as white, and just as sweet. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 186 The one thing he couldn't tolerate was dark meat. 2006 N.Y. Mag. 14 Aug. 83/3 His uncle's gay landlords regard him as studly dark meat and initiate him into the fold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1848 |
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