mullet
/ˈmʌlɪt/
mullet noun: a fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).
Noun (1)
mullet (plural mullets or mullet)
- A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).
- Synonyms:
- red mullet, mullid, goatfish
- Those of the genus Mullus within that family.
- A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes).
- Synonyms:
- grey mullet, haarder, springer
- Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family.
- Those in the genus Moxostoma.
Noun (2)
mullet (plural mullets)
- A fool.
Noun (3)
mullet (plural mullets)
- A men's 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 back1994, Beastie Boys, Mullet Head - – Maybe it's a curly fro.
– Maybe every day is bad hair day!
– Maybe it's a mullet!2008, Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots 406
- Synonyms:
- hockey hair
- – Mullet head, don't touch the back
- A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.
Noun (4)
mullet (plural mullets)
- 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.1871, Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, page 215
- A rowel of a spur.
Proper noun capitalized: Mullet
Mullet (plural Mullets)
- A surname.
mullet meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Arabic
mullet in Tamil
- fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)
- மடவை maṭavai
mullet in Urdu
- شاہ مچھلی
mullet in Tagalog
- fish of the family Mullidae (red mullets)
- asubi
- fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)
- gagapang
mullet in Arabic
- fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)
- بُورِيّ būriyy
More languagesFewer languages
- mullet in Persian
- کفال kafâl, مولت
- mullet in Vietnamese
- cá đối
Examples of mullet in a sentence
- I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.
- I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.
- Thanks to social media getting all nostalgic on Throwback Thursdays, everyone knows you once sported a mullet.
Synonyms of mullet
Forms of mullet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mullets |
| plural | mullet |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Mullets |
Origin of mullet
From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
Also termed a mullethead, possibly derived from the fish (see Etymology 1) or from mull (meaning to stupefy) though neither is certain.
1994 US. Popularized and possibly coined by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".
Words formed from mullet
- black mullet
- black true mullet
- bright mullet
- bully mullet
- callifaver mullet
- common grey mullet
- common mullet
- cucumber mullet
- diamond mullet
- finger mullet
- flathead grey mullet
- flathead mullet
- gray mullet
- hardgut mullet
- Lebranche mullet
- mangrove mullet
- pearl mullet
- popeye mullet
- proto-mullet
- red mullet
- river mullet
- sea mullet
- so-iuy mullet
- striped mullet
- stunned mullet
- femullet
- mulleted
- mullet-headed
- mulletlike
- protomullet
- she-mullet
- skullet
Phrases with mullet
Words that rhyme with mullet
Questions about mullet
- What does mullet mean?
- Mullet means a fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).
- What is mullet in Tamil?
- Mullet in Tamil is மடவை (maṭavai). See Mullet meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is mullet?
- Mullet can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mullet?
- Mullet is pronounced /ˈmʌlɪt/.
- What is the plural of mullet?
- The plural of mullet is mullets.
Words near mullet in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mullet (page history and authors); Mullet (page history and authors); mullet (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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