Mullet

//ˈmʌlɪt// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).
  2. 2
    A fool.
  3. 3
    A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

    "– Mullet head, don't touch the back – Cut the sides, don't touch the back"

  4. 4
    A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.

    "Grogan, Creation of 1859, or Moyvore, Westmeath. [...] Arms,—Barry of sex or and sable, on a chief engrailed azure a lion passant of the first. Crest,—A lion's head erased sable, charged with a mullet or."

  5. 5
    bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin wordnet
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  1. 6
    A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (grey mullets). US, especially
  2. 7
    A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader. slang
  3. 8
    The rowel of a spur.
  4. 9
    freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide wordnet
  5. 10
    Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, redhorses) US
  6. 11
    highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).

Etymology 2

Also termed a mullethead, possibly derived from the fish (see Etymology 1) or from mull (meaning to stupefy) though neither is certain.

Etymology 3

1994 US. Popularized and possibly coined by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".

Etymology 4

From Middle English molet, from Old French molette (“rowel”).

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