PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cutting-off apparatus of a meat block that can cut it off by cutting desired slits with no entrainment of the meat block when cutting slits in the meat block to cut it off.SOLUTION: A cutting-off apparatus 1 comprises a cutter 20 comprising a rotary shaft 21 which is fitted with a plurality of discoid cutting blades 23 that cut off a meat block P and a discoid slit-cutting blades 25 that are arranged between the cutting-off blades 23 and cut slits in the cut-off meat block P. The cutting-off apparatus comprises a holding member 30 which holds the meat block P wound up in the rotation direction R of the rotary shaft 21 along with the rotation of the cutting-off blades 23 and slit-cutting blades 25 from above, arranged below the rotary shaft between the cutting-off blades and slit-cutting blades.