missing word: mullet

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Sat Oct 7 17:56:09 UTC 2000


>
> 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.

JTS



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