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die Koteletten (only pl.)
   sideburns

Elvis bekam seine Koteletten abrasiert und seine langen Haare auf die vorschriftsmäßige Länge gestutzt. (bei seinem Einzug in die US Army, 1958)
Elvis had his sideburns shaved off and his long hair trimmed to the regulation length. (when he was drafted into the US Army in 1958)
(See: Elvis in Germany: 1958-1960 from the German Way)
Bekannte Kotelettenträger: John Quincy Adams, Isaac Asimov, Dan Aykroyd, Ambrose Burnside*, Helmut Kohl, John Lennon, Elvis Presley.
Well-known people with sideburns: John Quincy Adams, Isaac Asimov, Dan Aykroyd, Ambrose Burnside*, Helmut Kohl, John Lennon, Elvis Presley.
*The English term "sideburns" is a corruption of the name of this US Civil War general.

Related:
der Backenbart side whiskers, long sideburns, sideboards (Br.)
das Kotelett (-s) cutlet, (pork) chop

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