cutlet
Americannoun
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a slice of meat, especially of veal, for broiling or frying.
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a flat croquette of minced chicken, lobster, or the like.
noun
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a piece of meat taken esp from the best end of neck of lamb, pork, etc
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a flat croquette of minced chicken, lobster, etc
Etymology
Origin of cutlet
1700–10; < French côtelette, Old French costelette double diminutive of coste rib < Latin costa. See -let
Example Sentences
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Cutlet threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Jeffery, and the Bears were down by a point.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2015
Another franchise is marketing a strategy of turning PC bangs into hybrid restaurants with the moniker "Pork Cutlet PC Bang," offering pork cutlets in dishes mounted on trays above their PC keyboards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2014
An exception is the current idol, Blackwater Cutlet, a small, black 61-pounder from Wimbledon, who gets fan mail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Uncle Edward's Curry," "Marrow on Toast,'' "Dutch Cordial," "Veal Cutlet a la Charlie Sadler" inserted now and then like plums in a pudding.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cutlet, kut′let, n. a slice of meat cut off for cooking, esp. of mutton or veal—generally the rib and the meat belonging to it.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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