: any of a family (Mugilidae) of chiefly marine bony fishes with an elongate rather stout body compare goatfish, red mullet
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[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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Many prescription medications are not like mullets or fruitcakes.—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025 At thirty-two, Luckey embodies the stereotype of a cocky, gnomic tech mogul: shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, flip-flops, a mullet and a soul patch.—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025 Sydney The White Lotus would do well on the large island of mullets and koalas and things that want to kill you.—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025 On August 1, the 29-year-old actor best known for her role in 13 Reasons Why revealed an unreasonably cool pixie mullet on Instagram, courtesy of celebrity hair stylist Halley Brisker.—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mullet
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Etymology
Middle English molet, from Anglo-French mulet, from Latin mullus red mullet, from Greek myllos
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