mustache
or mous·tache
the hair growing on the upper lip
such hair on men, allowed to grow without shaving, and often trimmed in any of various shapes.
hairs or bristles growing near the mouth of an animal.
a stripe of color, or elongated feathers, suggestive of a mustache on the side of the head of a bird.
something resembling a mustache, as food or drink adhering to the upper lip: a mustache of milk.
Origin of mustache
1Other words from mustache
- mustached, adjective
Words Nearby mustache
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For creating a 90s Gen-X goatee or simply shaving off everything but the mustache, this trimmer is a powerful tool capable of getting into small spaces.
Best beard product for the best beard of your life | Florie Korani | August 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceKnow what type of beard or mustache you have, and what type of products will take your facial hair game from college scruff to whatever is happening with David Letterman’s chin.
Best beard product for the best beard of your life | Florie Korani | August 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSo then he says, “If you’re gonna get on in this country, you’ve gotta shave that mustache because people are gonna think you’re a Muslim, and we don’t like Muslims around here.”
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Partner in Crime Seizes the Spotlight | Marlow Stern | July 30, 2021 | The Daily BeastI remember we were shooting Borat in 2005 or 2006, and there’s a bit in the film where Sacha has a mustache and realtively dark skin, and the guy who’s running the rodeo tells him to shave his mustache.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Partner in Crime Seizes the Spotlight | Marlow Stern | July 30, 2021 | The Daily BeastThat’s an extraordinary thing to say to a guy who isn’t a Muslim and just is walking around with a mustache.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Partner in Crime Seizes the Spotlight | Marlow Stern | July 30, 2021 | The Daily Beast
From the few photographs of him, we see a stout man with deep Indian features, a thick mustache and stoic face.
They have no reference point other than seeing the Mad Men dudes, or reading one article on Milk and Honey, and like a mustache.
The Ladies Disrupting the Bartender Boys’ Club | Brandy Zadrozny | September 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy prom date, Red, sported a wiry mustache and drove a black-and-gold Camaro.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Rednecks and Their Unjustly Unsung Kin | Allison Glock | August 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen the mustache-twirler asks her why she helped him, she says, “I know what you want.”
Game of Thrones’ ‘The Mountain and the Viper’ Recap: Trial by Combat and Inigo Montoya’s Revenge | Marlow Stern | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou know, like, throw on a sombrero and a poncho, maybe draw a mustache on my face?
Half a dozen men in that room had the same shade of hair and mustache, and the same ordinary blue eyes.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairHe had a waxed mustache which he was in the habit of twisting whenever in deep thought.
Kip Burland also recognized the handsome, energetic man with the sleek black hair and small, waxed mustache.
Carlson frowned, remained dramatically silent for a moment while he twisted his mustache.
Garnache leaned there, in that friendly shelter, to breathe, and he smiled grimly under cover of his mustache.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
British Dictionary definitions for mustache
/ (məˈstɑːʃ) /
the US spelling of moustache
Derived forms of mustache
- mustached, adjective
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