🍖 A sheep meat cut 🧔 Facial hair style

mutton chop

1 5.1

A cut of meat from an adult sheep, cooked like a steak

noun
/ˈmʌtən tʃɑp/

: chuleta de cordero

The chef grilled the mutton chop to perfection, adding rosemary for extra flavor.

Examples

Martha prefers lamb but sometimes enjoys a well-cooked mutton chop.
I ordered a delicious mutton chop for dinner.
He ordered a mutton chop with mashed potatoes for dinner.
The restaurant specializes in mutton chops and grilled vegetables.
The chef prepared a delicious mutton chop seasoned with herbs and garlic.
For dinner, we enjoyed a perfectly grilled mutton chop with roasted vegetables.
At the restaurant, I ordered a tender mutton chop served with a rich gravy.

Synonyms

chop

vsmutton chop

288 1.8

A thick piece of meat with a bone from the rib or loin

is the same type but specifically from mature sheep meat

mutton

vsmutton chop

20 2.8

Meat from an adult sheep that people eat

is a specific cooked piece with a bone from that flesh

mouton

vsmutton chop

1 9.9

Meat from an older sheep that people cook

is a particular thick bone-in piece taken from that meat

cut of mutton

vsmutton chop

6.8

A piece of meat from an adult sheep that people cook and eat

is a specific thick piece with a bone cut from that meat

How Young

lamb chop

19 2.1

hogget

9.9

mutton chop

1 5.1

Surface Forms

mutton chop singular

mutton chops plural

Morphology

mutton + chop

Though formed from 'mutton' (sheep meat) + 'chop' (a cut of meat), the sense 'style of facial hair' is a metaphorical, culture-specific extension based on visual resemblance and cannot be predicted from the literal meanings; a B1 learner who knows the constituents would most likely interpret it as a meat dish. The idiomatic facial-hair meaning is therefore not transparently derivable and requires prior exposure.

Etymology

Mutton chop is a cooking name: mutton means the meat of a sheep and a chop is a single cut of meat, so the phrase means 'a cut of sheep meat'.