Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US black/W.I.) a white person, usu. a woman and in a sexual context [the tenderness of young SE chicken; note printers’ jargon white meat, an actress].

1882		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 1 Apr. 2/2: Southern niggers have lately taken such a fancy to white meat that Judge Lynch is decorating all the groves with them. Pretty soon every tree will have its nigger, and all varieties will bear cocoanuts and wool.
1934		Dan Burley Negro Star 16 Nov. 5: ‘Don’t want to fight no culled boys.’ [...] Joe [Louis] likes white meat.
1941		F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 116: ‘She runa round with them ofays?’ ‘Don’t ask me. I don’t have nothin’ to do with the white girls.’ [...] ‘I thought maybe she had a taste for white meat too.’.
1958		Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 20: Shoot, whyn’t they try to get them some nice white meat from downtown once in a while.
1967		W. Manus Mott the Hoople 47: ‘Shubiedoo!’ he’d sing out when a particularly good-looking girl drove up. [...] ‘White meat with lots of gravy!’.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 415: Among American blacks, whitey and white meat also have had specialized meanings, designating Caucasian women, especially when considered as sexual objects.
1991		P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 266: ‘You prefer light meat, don’t you?’ he asked, selecting a pale flesh-colored male chest.
1993		J. Mowry Six Out Seven (1994) 239: Niggers [...] might just find they got a whole different kind of hankerin after white meat!
2005		L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 190: You bustin’ heads to the white meat? Nigga, stop lyin’.
2009		J. Stahl Pain Killers 22: [of a man] Somebody was possibly hard-up enough to find forty-year-old white meat worth whistling at.

2. (US) an easy target; something desirable [SE white + meat n. (1), pun on the genteel euph. for the ‘breast’ of a chicken].

1939

R. Chandler Big Sleep 121: A guy like that wouldn’t be white meat to a heister.

3. (US prison) fatty pork as served in rations.

1950

R. Starnes And When She Was Bad 123: ‘Goddamn you,’ he shouted, ‘I’m going to see you eating navy beans and white meat down in the jail house yet’ .

4. a white penis [meat n. (2)].

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 49: the penis [...] light [white] meat (penis of a white man).
1986–7		Maledicta IX 61: white meat n [R] White man’s penis; homosexual slang.

5. the vagina.

1988

Lewin & Lewin Thes. Sl. 411/1: Vagina [...] white meat.

6. (US black) the intestines and internal organs.

1992		Luke ‘Fakin’ Like Gangstas’ 🎵 Fuck around get your shit split to the white meat.
2006		Hi-Tek ‘March’ 🎵 Chop a nigga’s shit until they white meat show.