A
meat chop is a cut of
meat cut perpendicularly to the
spine, and usually containing a
rib or
riblet part of a
vertebra and served as an individual portion. The most common kinds of meat chops are
pork and lamb. A thin boneless chop, or one with only the rib
bone, may be called a
cutlet, though the difference is not always clear. The term "chop" is not usually used for
beef, but a
T-bone steak is essentially a
loin chop, and a
rib steak a rib chop.