Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deck or adorn by means of mullets or curling-pincers.

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  • noun Plural form of mullet.

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Examples

  • Perhaps the most successful vampire movie emerging at this time was “The Lost Boys,” which gave us Keifer Sutherland and Alex Winter in mullets, * both* Coreys, and a sense of knowing humor a full decade before “Scream.”

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002

  • These guys do nothing but drink beer, play foot hockey, and grow “hockey hair” aka mullets and beat the hell out of eachother and anything they come in contact with..including Tron.

    How the heck did I miss ‘FUBAR’ the movie? | We Are Movie Geeks 2009

  • I don't want to read about "mullets", bless the 80's.

    New Releases, Author News & More - 9/29/09 Donna 2009

  • Again, some members of the class of fishes are neither male nor female, as eels and a kind of mullets found in stagnant waters.

    On the Generation of Animals 2002

  • In this man's view, the Bushes, père et (both) fils, were put on earth for one purpose only, to add a front of Yankee probity to the schemes of oil-patch adventurers (granite goes down better than snake oil when you're working the "mullets" back East), and I remain uncertain as to whether this is what we need in a President, notwithstanding that it is usually what we get.

    Bushes Buff Up Big Oil, While Amazon.com Oozes 2000

  • It includes the sharks and rays as well as bony fish such as mullets, snappers, groupers, jew fish, breams and threadfins.

    Chapter 4 1982

  • "With blonder hair, a bi-level haircut (that's what we called 'mullets' back in the 80's), blue framed glasses and holding a duran duran magazine / program / fanzine and it's me in 1983," said commenter Rednrowdy.

    Jezebel 2009

  • Old French refers to as mullets, but without the center holes those sometimes have.)

    Concordance A Terran Empire concordance Ann Wilson

  • They wear mullets and fauxhawks back when mullets and fauxhawks are only just cutting-edge.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • And you get the 1990's of comics when it's big brick-wall men with guns and mullets killing everything for no reason other than to be XXXTREME or something.

    How to Make a Superman Movie 2009

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