dark meat

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   the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food

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Questions about dark meat

What does dark meat mean?

dark meat means "the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food".

Is dark meat a common word?

dark meat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.