Mustache

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  • noun. The hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed.
  • noun. Something similar to the cultivated, groomed hair on the human upper lip, as.
  • noun. A group of bristles or hairs about the mouth of an animal.
  • noun. Distinctive coloring or feathers near the beak of a bird.
  • noun. Food or drink sticking conspicuously to the upper lip.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The beard worn on the upper lip of men; the unshaven hair of the upper lip: frequently used in the plural, as if the hair on each side of the lip were to be regarded as a mustache.
  • noun. . A long ringlet hanging beside the face, a part of a woman's head-dress in the seventeenth century.
  • noun. In zoology:
  • noun. Hairs or bristles like a mustache; whiskers; rictal vibrissæ mystaces.
  • noun. A mystacine, malar, or maxillary stripe of color in a bird's plumage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
  • noun. A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.
  • noun. Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
  • noun. A stain or discoloration on the upper lip of a person.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip
  • Word Usage
    "Speaking of boots, Thon muffed his fair share of ground balls as a journeyman middle infielder, but on this squad his mustache is an all-star."
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