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mullet

1

[muhl-it]

noun

plural

mullet 
,

plural

mullets .
  1. any of several marine or freshwater, usually gray fishes of the family Mugilidae, having a nearly cylindrical body.

  2. a goatfish.

  3. a sucker, especially of the genus Moxostoma.



mullet

2
Also ³¾´Ç±ô·±ð³Ù
Also

[muhl-it]

noun

Heraldry.
  1. a starlike charge having five points unless a greater number is specified, used especially as the cadency mark of a third son.

mullet

3

[muhl-it]

noun

  1. a hairstyle in which the hair is short in the front and at the sides of the head, and longer in the back.

mullet

1

/ ˈ³¾ÊŒ±ôɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. any of various teleost food fishes belonging to the families Mugilidae (grey mullet) or Mullidae (red mullet) See also grey mullet red mullet

  2. the US name for grey mullet

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mullet

2

/ ˈ³¾ÊŒ±ôɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. a hairstyle in which the hair is short at the top and long at the back

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of mullet1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English molet, mulet, melet, from Old French mulet “red mullet,†from Latin mullus “red mullet,†from Greek ³¾Ã½±ô±ô´Ç²õ, a kind of unidentified fish ; -et

Origin of mullet2

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English molet(te), from Old French molete “rowel of a spur,†equivalent to mole “millstone†( French meule ) + -ette diminutive suffix; -ette

Origin of mullet3

First recorded in 1990–95; perhaps by shortening of mullethead “blockhead, foolâ€; popularized and probably coined by U.S. hip-hop group the Beastie Boys
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of mullet1

C15: via Old French from Latin mullus, from Greek mullos

Origin of mullet2

C20: origin unknown
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He said this shape was "too big to be a mullet", so he stopped to take a closer look.

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“The idea of a Pakistani guy being a Florida cop who speaks with that accent, has tattoos and a frosted-tip mullet only makes sense in ‘Poker Face’ world.

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Playing England’s Reading festival in 2023, he sported a mullet haircut that “kind of happened by accident,†he said.

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Christian Morris, a pansexual, nonbinary artist from Inglewood, attended his first Simon Says in March dressed in a tiger stripe suit, blond mullet wig and Aladdin Sane-inspired lightning bolt face makeup.

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The constant radio chatter — which includes the unlikely announcing voice of legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman — doesn’t give the era away, nor do the younger characters’ hairstyles, since mullets and dreads endure.

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