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
Other Word Forms
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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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
These chicken cutlet, pasta salad and chicken salad recipes come together with flavor-boosting ingredients in just about 30 minutes.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
It was a breaded veal cutlet, spinach, mashed potatoes, and prune whip.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
“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
When Elizabeth writes of stepping into her gleaming kitchen to “test the crumbly brown goodness of the toasted veal cutlets à la Connecticut,” she is not so much lying as world-building.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
We make them constantly in this house and my kids get annoyed if like a week goes by and we haven’t had chicken cutlets.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024
Once they’ve grown, they’re formed into cutlets, nuggets and other shapes.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
The serving men brought out a heron stuffed with figs, veal cutlets blanched with almond milk, creamed herring, candied onions, foul-smelling cheeses, plates of snails and sweetbreads, and a black swan in her plumage.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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