mullet
mullet Lexical Profile
mullet Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A hairstyle in which the hair is cut short on the top and sides of the head but left significantly longer at the back.
"During the 1980s, the mullet became an iconic hairstyle worn by popular rock musicians and athletes alike."
A widely distributed, predominantly marine and estuarine schooling fish of the family Mugilidae, often caught for food.
"The local fishermen cast their gillnets into the shallow coastal waters to catch a migrating school of striped mullet."
• Rhymes for mullet
Word Origin & Etymology
The term for the fish derives from Middle English 'molet', via Old French from Latin 'mullus'. The term for the hairstyle was popularized in the 1990s, notably by the Beastie Boys' 1994 song 'Mullet Head', likely deriving from the 19th-century American insult 'mullet-head' meaning a foolish person.
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