mustache
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1.8
- noun
- US
:
bigote poblado
- She admired his bushy mustache, which hung down around the corners of his mouth.
- a handlebar mustache
- beards and mustaches
The other choice is this is Albert Einstein, the last person to use that mustache unironically.
- The other choice is this is Albert Einstein, the last person to use that mustache unironically.
Examples
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Nguyen O'Hara had a dark, angular face; his neat mustache had flecks of gray in it.
Fiction book (1999) -
A smile broke below the rider's golden mustache as he reined his mount to a prancing walk.
Fiction book (1994) -
Yeah, well, they said lose the mustache or lose the election.
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Do you wear a long black mustache?
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Groucho was the mustache guy.
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You can rate how your mustache goes up against other people's mustaches.
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And to think Mr. Johnson hid behind that big mustache and pasted-on smile all those years and nobody knew.
Academic text (2010) -
His black mustache was waxed at the ends, his jaw shaped like a horseshoe.
Fiction book (1999) -
Cunningham sneered, flicking the ends of his mustache with his fingers.
Fiction book (1993) -
The lecturer, a gray-headed old man with a handlebar mustache, broke into a raucous laugh.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
8
9.3
Hair on the upper lip that men usually grow
1
3.0
Thick hair above the upper lip on a man's face
1
6.6
Thick hair on the face that hangs over the mouth like walrus whiskers
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9.9
Hair that grows above the upper lip
A large bushy moustache with long ends that curl or hang beside the mouth
A thick mustache above the lip that catches food
A short line of hair above the upper lip
Hair that grows on a person's upper lip often called a mustache
Facial hair that grows thick along the jaw and down the cheeks
Compounds
- Archaic
A cup with a small bar inside the rim that keeps a man's mustache out of the drink
How Bushy
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6.6
- US
19
1.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mustache comes from the Greek root mystax meaning 'upper lip', a word that moved into French and Italian before English borrowed it. That's why we use mustache for a large, bushy growth of hair on the upper lip.