lamb (lambs plural )
1 n-count A lamb is a young sheep.
Lamb is the flesh of a lamb eaten as food., n-uncount
Laura was basting the leg of lamb.
2 n-count People sometimes use lamb when they are addressing or referring to someone who they are fond of and who is young, gentle, or unfortunate., (feelings)
She came and put her arms around me. `You poor lamb. What's wrong?'
3 →
mutton dressed as lamb →
mutton
sacrificial lamb (sacrificial lambs plural )If you refer to someone as a sacrificial lamb, you mean that they have been blamed unfairly for something they did not do, usually in order to protect another more powerful person or group. n-count
(=scapegoat)
He was a sacrificial lamb to a system that destroyed him.