barebacked
See also: bare-backed
English
Adjective
barebacked (not comparable)
- Of a bird raised for meat: lacking feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
- 1950, Poultry Digest, volume 9, page 91:
- Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.
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