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 ]