Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed.
- noun Something similar to the cultivated, groomed hair on the human upper lip, as.
- noun A group of bristles or hairs about the mouth of an animal.
- noun Distinctive coloring or feathers near the beak of a bird.
- noun Food or drink sticking conspicuously to the upper lip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The beard worn on the upper lip of men; the unshaven hair of the upper lip: frequently used in the plural, as if the hair on each side of the lip were to be regarded as a mustache.
- noun . A long ringlet hanging beside the face, a part of a woman's head-dress in the seventeenth century.
- noun In zoology:
- noun Hairs or bristles like a mustache; whiskers; rictal vibrissæ mystaces.
- noun A mystacine, malar, or maxillary stripe of color in a bird's plumage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
- noun (Zoöl.) A West African monkey (
Cercopithecus cephus ). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose. - noun (Zoöl.) Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
- noun informal A stain or discoloration on the upper lip of a person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Speaking of boots, Thon muffed his fair share of ground balls as a journeyman middle infielder, but on this squad his mustache is an all-star.
Soup Strainers 2005
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Speaking of boots, Thon muffed his fair share of ground balls as a journeyman middle infielder, but on this squad his mustache is an all-star.
April 2005 2005
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I said, twirling my mustache is a Snidely Whiplash fashion.
» Let the subversion of America’s youth BEGIN! heinleinblog 2003
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Cito Gaston may be underappreciated, but his mustache is not.
Uh-oh: Chad Ochocinco's cereal box has sex-line number Cindy Boren 2010
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He's back with an update, and his mustache is bigger and better than ever.
Boing Boing 2009
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Chemist: just out of curiosity, the Hitler mustache is OK, though?
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Her mustache is reminiscent of Zorro … she just needs her sword and mask!
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Paused, added, with a froth mustache from the pint, giving him the appearance of a sage
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A pencil thin mustache gives him a less corny “Snidely Whiplash” appearance.
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Paused, added, with a froth mustache from the pint, giving him the appearance of a sage
January 2008 2008
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