mullet

noun

mul·let ˈmə-lət

plural mullet or mullets

: any of a family (Mugilidae) of chiefly marine bony fishes with an elongate rather stout body compare goatfish, red mullet

[perhaps short for mullethead blockhead] : a hairstyle in which the hair is short on the sides and top and long at the back

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Charlie Blackmon gave up his mullet, but there’s no way the baseball diehard could completely walk away from the game. —

Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2025 Like Hughes and every other 20-something, male wannabe in Nashville, Sadler had a prodigious mullet. —

Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 All of them are lithe, with a classic shark profile, and hunt small fish like mullet. —

Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 July 2024 From a distance—or maybe just through my outdated prescription—if appeared that Rihanna had gotten a bold, voluminous, softly spiky mullet in a new rich brunette shade with blonder ombré areas that, further down, transitions into her signature dark brown. —

Marci Robin, Allure, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mullet