cutlet
Americannoun
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cutlets
plural
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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
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cutlet
1700–10; < French côtelette, Old French costelette double diminutive of coste rib < Latin costa. See -let
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Chicken cutlet starts with either a boneless chicken thigh or a boneless chicken breast that’s covered with cling wrap and pounded to even thickness.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
Dishes, designed by Garcia and his son, include fries served in a capybara-themed cup and a chicken cutlet that’s shaped like the animal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Breakfast was porridge, lunch was soup with little or no meat, mashed potatoes and a meat or fish cutlet; as was dinner, Kotov said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
On the contrary, a cutlet is sometimes cheaper than a sack of potatoes.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023
Judy eyes the buffet, bites into something that turns out to be a shrimp cutlet.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Four daily meals included cutlets and mashed potatoes, according to a Russian newspaper reporter on the voyage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
“Taxpayers are no longer willing to subsidize to the tune of thousands of crores, your stale cutlets and evening swims,” author Anand Ranganathan wrote on X in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Toss it with fresh lobster chunks, enrobe cutlets with hollandaise and bread crumbs before frying, or make the most luscious broiled oysters you've ever had.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
So chicken cutlets were huge growing up, and I think that's why it's huge for me now.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024
Today, I wasn’t very hungry, but I ordered their delicious miso ramen and fried pork cutlets called tonkatsu.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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