Dictionary Definition
mullet
Noun
1 highly valued lean flesh of marine or
freshwater mullet [syn: gray
mullet]
2 freshwater or coastal food fishes a
spindle-shaped body; found worldwide [syn: gray
mullet]
3 bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with
two barbels on the chin
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A fish of the genus Mugil.
Derived terms
- black mullet
- black true mullet
- bright mullet
- bully mullet
- callifaver mullet
- common grey mullet
- common mullet
- finger mullet
- flathead mullet
- flathead grey mullet
- gray mullet
- hardgut mullet
- mangrove mullet
- popeye mullet
- red mullet
- river mullet
- sea mullet
- striped mullet
Translations
- Arabic: (būriy)
- CJKV Characters: 鯔, 鲻
- Chinese:
- Corsican: muzaru
- Croatian: cipal
- Dutch: harder
- Danish: multe
- French: mulet
- Georgian: კეფალი (kep‘ali), ბარაბული (barabuli)
- German: Meeräsche
- Hawaiian: ʻanae
- Ido: surmuleto
- Italian: triglia
- Japanese: ボラ (bora)
- Korean: 숭어과 (sung-eogwa)
- Lithuanian: kefalinės
- Maori: kanae
- Old English: mecefisc
- Polish: mugilowate
- Portuguese: tainha
- Proto-Polynesian: *kanahe
- Russian: кефаль (kefál’)
- Samoan: ʻanae
- Sicilian: cìfalu
- Spanish: mújol ; salmonete italbrac red
- Tahitian: ʻanae
- Tongan: kanahe
- Turkish: kefal
Etymology 2
Apparently coined (or popularised) by hip hop group the Beastie Boys.Noun
- defn English
Usage notes
The hairstyle sense is particularly associated with the working class or even bad taste.Derived terms
Translations
a hairstyle
- Czech: deka
- Danish: svenskerhår
- Dutch: matje
- Finnish: takatukka
- French: nuque longue
- German: Vokuhila (1)
- Hebrew: מאלט
- Japanese: マレット (maretto)
- Norwegian: hockeysveis
- Polish: czeski piłkarz
- Spanish: chocopanda
- Swedish: hockeyfrilla
Extensive Definition
Mullet may refer to:
Fish
- Mullet (fish), or "grey mullets", of the family Mugilidae, of which the most widely known species is the striped mullet, Mugil cephalus
- Goatfish, or "red mullets", of the family Mullidae; in particular, red mullets of the genus Mullus
Other
- Mullet (haircut), a hairstyle that is short in the front, top, and sides, but long in the back
- Mullet (heraldry)
- Mullet (film), a 2001 Australian film directed by David Caesar, starring Ben Mendelsohn
- The Mullet, the isthmus of the Mullet Peninsula in the barony of Erris, County Mayo in the west of Ireland
- The Mullets (TV series), a UPN sitcom
- Mullets (Comic Strip)
- A person born in Arundel, West Sussex (due to the presence of the Mullet fish in the local river)
- Mullet Creek, a stream in the Falkand Islands
- Mullet River, a river in Wisconsin
- Norman Mullet, the chief superintendent in the British television show A Touch of Frost
- Mullet Festival, annual event held in Niceville, Florida in October. Also referred to as the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival.
See also
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