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means A small rib (or loin) cut of lamb, typically grilled or pan-seared and often trimmed so the bone sticks out like a handle.

from Straightforward compound: 'lamb' (the young sheep, from Old English 'lamb', a word with deep Germanic roots) plus 'chop,' which comes from the verb meaning to cut with a sharp blow — related to 'chip.' By the 1600s 'chop' had settled into English as a noun for a cut of meat still attached to a bone, and 'lamb chop' simply names the lamb version of that cut. No hidden drama here — the word is as literal as the dish is elegant.