Figure most of the meal is meat (4)
I believe the answer is:
veal
'is meat' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'figure most of the meal' is the wordplay.
'figure' becomes 'v' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'most of' means to remove the first letter.
'meal' with its first letter removed is 'eal'.
'v'+'eal'='VEAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for veal that I've seen before include "White meat" , "Type of meat" , "Calf's flesh as food" , "meat, R [ROSE] maybe" , "cuisine" .)