missing word: mullet

[Alice Faber]

At 7:05 PM +0100 10/7/2000, Lynne Murphy wrote, ostensibly about Re:
missing word: mullet:
>>  >
>>>  Neither the brand new AHD nor the OED have _mullet_ as the name of a
>>>  haircut.  RHDAS only has it as a shortening of 'mullethead', meaning
>>>  'a fool'.  I've seen it tons in the UK, and increasingly in the US
>>>  (it's in yesterday's Salon article about Christopher Guest as
>>>  'mullet-headed':
>>>  [etc.]
>>
>>FWIW the OED has drafted an entry for this. I wish it
>>would go away.
>
>The entry or the haircut?
>
This will teach me to fire off a wise-cracking followup without
reading everything in my mail box first.

Alice
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