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/mˈətən tʃɑp/ Listen

Mutton chop

noun

Chop cut from a mature sheep.

Facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off). Synonyms: burnside, side-whiskers, sideburn.

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"Mutton chop" Quotes from Famous Books

... front door of a big white house. An untidy lad let him in and took him into a drawing-room. It was filled with a large suite covered in green velvet, and in the middle was a round table. On this in water stood a bouquet of flowers tightly packed together in a paper frill like the bone of a mutton chop, and carefully spaced round it were books in leather bindings. There was a ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... his hand was no steadier, his nights were no less wakeful. He fancied himself growing weaker day by day, and although the great authority in Harley Street had strictly forbidden any stimulant except one glass of stout with his mutton chop at luncheon, Brian, who was quite unable to eat the chop, found it impossible to lunch without plenty of dry sherry, or to dine without champagne, and after dinner drank a good deal of that fine old port which had been laid down by old ...

— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon

Words linked to "Mutton chop" : facial hair, chop