Other forms: mullets
A mullet is a common sea fish, or a distinctive haircut. Grey mullet, red mullet, sport a mullet.
The fish comes in two unrelated kinds, grey and red, and the red is much the better eating. The haircut is short at the front and long at the back, was everywhere in the 1980s, and got its name only in 1994, from a song by the Beastie Boys.
1nounmulletA common sea fish.
“The fishermen brought in a net full of grey mullet.”
2nounhaircutA haircut short at the front and long at the back.
“In his school photos from the eighties, my dad had a terrible mullet.”
mullet is a fish, or a haircut.
Old French mulet comes from Latin mullus, the red mullet, from a Greek name for the fish.
Ancient Greek
μύλλος
Latin
mullus — red mullet
Old French
mulet
Middle English
molet
English, today
mullet
Mugilidae From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire