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breast

99 1.0

The meat from the front of a bird like a chicken or turkey

noun
/brɛst/

: pechuga

You get your choice of breast or thigh.
chicken breast
breast meat

It drove that white meat, that breast meat demand.

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Examples

He prefers to eat turkey breast during the holidays instead of ham.
At the head table, Ed has finished his chicken breast stuffed with wild rice pilaf.

Fiction book (1994)
And you then you got this completely like prime Turkey breast that is ready to go.
I was at home eating chicken breasts daily.
Would you care for a tasty breast of duck, my lord?

Albert Nobbs (2011)
This is actually what I usually get, the breast and the waffle.
Big old chicken, super grain salad and double chicken breast, rice and peas.
A steward brought two trays: chicken breasts in white sauce, yellow beans, and apple tarts.

Fiction book (1996)
At the dinner party, she served grilled chicken breast with a lemon sauce.
For a healthy meal, she cooked a roasted chicken breast with vegetables.

Synonyms

chicken

vsbreast

586 1.0

Meat from a farm bird that people eat

is the specific front cut rather than the whole bird meat

white meat

vsbreast

15 1.5

Pale meat from the breast of birds like chicken or turkey

is the single front cut of a bird used as food

poultry

vsbreast

11 1.6

Meat from birds like chickens, ducks and turkeys used for food

is the narrower term for the specific front cut of a bird

fowl

vsbreast

6 3.2

Meat from birds like chicken or duck used for food

is a cut from a bird rather than general bird meat

Idioms

to make a clean breast of

1 7.5

To tell the whole truth about something wrong you did

to beat one's breast

Literature

9.1

Show deep regret by hitting your chest and crying

Compounds

breast cancer

252 2.7

A serious disease in the breast where abnormal cells grow and form a lump

breast implant

Specialized

28 3.8

A device that doctors put inside a breast to rebuild or enlarge it

breast milk

24 1.8

Milk made by a mother to feed her baby

breast pocket

9 2.4

A pocket on the chest of a jacket or coat for small items

chicken breast

Archaic

8 8.2

A bone in the chest that sticks out, often in children with rickets

breast health

1 3.9

How healthy a person's breasts are and how free they are from disease

breast of veal

1 5.5

A cut of meat from the front chest of a young cow often stuffed and roasted

breast-high

6.0

At the level of a person's chest

breast drill

Specialized

8.1

A hand tool with a rotating metal bit and a flat plate you press against the chest to make holes

breast of lamb

4.1

A cut of lamb with the breastbone and meat around it, often roasted or used in stews

breast-deep

7.4

At a height that reaches a person's chest

chimney breast

7.9

The part of a wall that sticks into a room to hold a fireplace

cystic breast disease

Specialized

4.6

Small lumps filled with fluid form in the breast tissue

fibrocystic breast disease

Specialized

3.3

A non-cancerous breast condition with small fluid lumps and firm areas that can be painful

fibrocystic disease of the breast

Specialized

4.2

A breast condition with small fluid-filled lumps and firm tissue that is not cancer and may cause pain

pigeon breast

Specialized

9.9

A condition where the chest bone sticks out too far

How Lean

breast

99 1.0

thigh

17 1.4

Surface Forms

breast singular

breasts plural

Etymology

The word breast once meant the 'chest' of a person or animal, so when we speak of chicken breast we mean the meat cut from the bird's chest.