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Youngster cooking ate leg (6)

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I believe the answer is:

eaglet

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'youngster' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'cooking ate leg' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates anagramming the letters (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'ate'+'leg'='ateleg'
'ateleg' with letters rearranged gives 'EAGLET'.

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(Other definitions for eaglet that I've seen before include "Young keen-sighted bird" , "Raptor chick" , "Eyrie resident" , "Get ale for the young bird" , "A young raptor" .)

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