rack
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7.1
- noun
- /ræk/
- Specialized
- It's rack of lamb with truffled ragout.
- rack of lamb
- rack of ribs
- rack of veal
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Watch on YouTubeThey gave me these rack, this rack of ribs.
- They gave me these rack, this rack of ribs.
- Get, you know, racks and racks of ribs or whole shoulders, things like that.
- You know, maybe a rack of lamb.
Examples
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I'll take two racks of lamb.
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You know, maybe a rack of lamb.
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And only one leg of lamb on the rack.
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Two duck breast, two rack of lamb.
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- How's the rack of lamb today, Bobby?
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That's a mighty fine rack of lamb.
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Ursi and Jamie Olson were both working on a rack of lamb dinner we were to have that evening.
Fiction book (1992) -
We see a montage of a person's hands chopping a rack of lamb into lamb chops and carving meat with surgical efficiency.
Fiction book (1993) -
The chef served a delicious rack of lamb with a side of roasted vegetables.
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For dinner, we enjoyed a full rack of pork ribs glazed with barbecue sauce.
Synonyms
9
3.4
A cut of lamb from the ribs often roasted and served whole or as chops
2
2.8
A large cut of meat with several ribs cooked whole
1
5.2
A large cut of beef with several ribs, roasted standing up
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
2
6.0
A round gear and a flat bar with teeth that change turning into straight movement
- Specialized
1
8.1
A railway for steep hills where a gear on the train fits a central toothed rail to climb safely
- Archaic
1
9.0
A very high amount people must pay to live in a house or use land that is unfair
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Etymology
Rack for a cut of meat comes from an old idea of the animal's back ('the back' or 'ridge'), because the ribs sit along the animal's back. So a rack of lamb or pork is the rib section taken from the animal's back.