missing word: mullet

[Lynne Murphy]

>  >
>>  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?

L.
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