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单词 white meat
释义

white meat

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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 mule
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Example sentences from the Web for white meat

  • Don't you think you can say which is the dark-meat and which is the white-meat poet?

    The Poet at the Breakfast Table|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

British Dictionary definitions for white meat

white meat

noun

any meat that is light in colour, such as veal or the breast of turkeyCompare red meat
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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