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mutton chop

British  

noun

  1. a piece of mutton from the loin

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It seems inconceivable that an array of handlebar mustaches, mutton chop sideburns and ZZ Top-style scruff would suddenly become common in the ranks of the planet’s most disciplined fighting forces.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

On Friday, as Kyle Rittenhouse stood in a courtroom in Kenosha, Wis., awaiting the verdict in his trial, a large bald man with mutton chop sideburns sat in a pew several rows behind him.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

Aficionados of the mutton chop, the full natural and Fu Manchu, they are a brotherhood of the beard.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2018

And the fashion has more in common with the "Saturday Night Fever"-era than anything else, be it mutton chop whiskers on an Imperial officer or a tight polyester vest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2014

Roosevelt craved a mutton chop with a tail to it; Kermit was hungry for strawberries and cream; and Cherrie couldn’t stop thinking about pancakes smothered in maple syrup.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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