1 [C] a young sheep
2 [U] meat from a young sheep:
a leg of lamb * lamb chops
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3 [C] (informal) used to describe or address sb with affection or pity:
You poor lamb!
IDIOMS
(like) a lamb / lambs to the slaughter used to describe people who are going to do sth dangerous without realizing it
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verb [V] (of a sheep) to give birth to a lamb:
She's due to lamb in two weeks' time.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lamb is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lamb a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lamb is tagged as noun.
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