# mullet
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmʌlɪt/, /ˈmʌlət/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌlɪt
* Rhymes: -ʌlət

### Etymology 1

Wikispecies From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).

#### Noun

mullet (plural mullets or mullet)
* A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).
* (especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (grey mullets).
* (US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, redhorses)

##### Synonyms

* (Mugillidae): haarder
* (Mugillidae): springer

##### Derived terms

* black mullet
* black true mullet
* bright mullet
* bully mullet
* callifaver mullet
* common grey mullet
* common mullet
* diamond mullet
* finger mullet
* flathead grey mullet
* flathead mullet
* gray mullet
* hardgut mullet
* Lebranche mullet
* mangrove mullet
* pearl mullet
* popeye mullet
* proto-mullet
* red mullet
* river mullet
* sea mullet
* so-iuy mullet
* striped mullet
* stunned mullet

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Also termed a mullethead, possibly derived from the fish (see Etymology 1) or from mull (meaning to stupefy) though neither is certain.

#### Noun

mullet (plural mullets)
* A fool.

### Etymology 3

1994 US. Popularized and possibly coined by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".

#### Noun

mullet (plural mullets)
* A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.
    Synonym: hockey hair
    Coordinate term: bilevel
** 1994, Beastie Boys, Mullet Head:– Mullet head, don't touch the back – Cut the sides, don't touch the back
** 2008, Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots 406‎:– Maybe it's a curly fro. – Maybe every day is bad hair day! – Maybe it's a mullet!
* (slang) A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.

##### Derived terms

* femullet
* mullet-headed
* she-mullet
* skullet

##### See also

* business in the front, party in the back

### Etymology 4

From Middle English molet, from Old French molette (“rowel”).

#### Noun

mullet (plural mullets)
* (heraldry) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.
** 1871, Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, page 215:Grogan, Creation of 1859, or Moyvore, Westmeath. [...] Arms,—Barry of sex or and sable, on a chief engrailed azure a lion passant of the first. Crest,—A lion's head erased sable, charged with a mullet or.
* The rowel of a spur.

##### Coordinate terms

* estoile

### References

* ↑ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2011 November 10 (last accessed), archived from the original on 16 June 2012

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mullet.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɐ.le.t͡ʃi/, (careful pronunciation) /ˈmɐ.let/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɐ.le.t͡ʃi/, (careful pronunciation) /ˈmɐ.let/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɐ.le.te/, (careful pronunciation) /ˈmɐ.let/

### Noun

mullet m (plural mullets)
* mullet (men’s hairstyle that is long in the back and short in the front)