英语词汇“mullet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Business in the front; party in the back. The mullet is a popular men's hairstyle from the 1980s, which is short on the sides and long in the back.

For seven hundred years, mullet has referred to a fish, but since 1994 it has taken off as a way to describe a hairstyle. For anyone who lived through the 1980s, it can be hard to believe that the word mullet was not circulating as a haircut descriptor during the decade when the haircuts were popular. But no reference to mullet as a hairstyle appeared in print before the 1994 Beastie Boys 1994 song "Mullet Head" dubbed it "a way of life."

VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT

Think of "Mullet" as a 1980s Word? It's Not.

Business in the front. Party in the back. And in between, a linguistic mystery.

Whether or not you're planning to see the 1980s video game throwback film Pixels this weekend, you won't want to miss the mullet Peter Dinklage sports in his role as Donkey Kong master Eddie Plant. Thanks to a sneak peek in USA Today's EntertainThis! last summer, Dinklage's impressive hairstyle has been making the rounds already.

Judging by the prevalence of mullet documentaries, mullet mockumentaries, mullet-based math lesson plans, mullet shaming (Dinklage's high school mullet unearthed by USAToday is a case in point), it's clear the haircut taps a gleeful nostalgic vein.

But while the mullet haircut should certainly take us back in time, the word itself should not. Mullet was coined in the 1300s to refer to fish; the word's earliest use as a hairstyle name did not appear in print until 1994, when the Beastie Boys' song "Mullet Head" "had a little story to tell/About a hair style that's way of life."

You're coming off like you're Van Damme
You've got Kenny G, in your Trans Am
You've got names like Billy Ray
Now you sing 'Hip Hop Hooray'

Put your Oakley's, stone wash on
Watching MTV and you watch on
And #1 on the side and don't touch the back
And #6 on the top and don't cut it wack, Jack

Mullet head, don't touch the back
Cut the sides, don't touch the back

How is this possible, countless have asked in Internet-based discussions, that the haircut didn't find a name until 1994? Certainly we all remember calling those styles mullets back when everyone was wearing them. Or do we?

A podcast for the Oxford University Blog tells the story of Oxford Dictionaries' search for an earlier origin. With many Reddit TIL posts attesting to remembering mullet from the 1970s and 1980s, editors could find no reference earlier than the Beasties'. (One of nine Beastie Boys citations in the OED.)

The linguistic detective work got interesting when a contributor to a Reddit thread produced a scan of a the printed phrase "mullet-headed" in the January 1992 issue of the Australian car enthusiast's magazine Street Machine. The OED editors were excited to unveil this new, earlier dating of the words, but ran into a snag in the process of confirming the lead.

A print copy of a January 1992 edition of Street Machine could not be located in several major libraries in Australia and New Zealand, nor in the archives of Street Machine collectors. The libraries and collectors were able to produce, however, a double January/February 1992 issue of Street Machine, which included a story identical to the scanned story in every respect save the inclusion of the word mullet. This left two possibilities: either the January 1992 issue was a near-untraceable special release, or the original Reddit responder had made alterations to the January/February 1992 edition. Katherine Martin, head of Oxford Dictionaries, holds out hope for the former. "Why would anyone go to all this trouble to hoodwink the OED?"

But hoodwinked or no, it seems that at least for now the word is firmly located in the 1990s. Graeme Diamond, Editorial Content Director for The Oxford English Dictionary, speculates as to why so many of us insist on backdating our memories of this word.

People confuse the word [mullet] with the phenomenon. Certainly you think of the haircut — long in the back, short in the front — as quite the 80s thing. But…at that point, when they were at the height of their popularity, it was actually a fairly unremarkable haircut and didn't need a name more than any normal haircut.

What do you think? Is it a little hard to believe that mullets were not named as such until most people had stopped wearing them? Or possible that back in the 1980s, the word haircut simply said it all?

WORD FAMILY

mullet: mullets

USAGE EXAMPLES

Trout are fair on the guts and on shell on soft plastics and finger mullet.

Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016)

Redfish are good on the beachfront on shad and mullet.

Washington Times(Dec 14, 2016)

“In 2025 and beyond, we may need to replace cod and other old favourites with warm-water species such as squid, mackerel, sardine and red mullet.”

Time(Dec 12, 2016)

1n freshwater or coastal food fishes with a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

gray mullet, grey mullet

Mugil cephalus, striped mullet

most important commercial mullet in eastern United States

Mugil curema, white mullet

silvery mullet of Atlantic and Pacific coasts

Mugil liza, liza

percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

2n bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin

Hypo|Hyper

Mullus surmuletus, goatfish, red mullet, surmullet

brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels

Mullus auratus, red goatfish

body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side

Mulloidichthys martinicus, yellow goatfish

schooling goatfish; greyish with yellow stripe

bottom-dweller, bottom-feeder

a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water

percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

3n highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet

Syn|Hyper

gray mullet, grey mullet

fish

the flesh of fish used as food

单词	mullet
释义	mullet (once / 7807 pages) n Business in the front; party in the back. The mullet is a popular men's hairstyle from the 1980s, which is short on the sides and long in the back. For seven hundred years, mullet has referred to a fish, but since 1994 it has taken off as a way to describe a hairstyle. For anyone who lived through the 1980s, it can be hard to believe that the word mullet was not circulating as a haircut descriptor during the decade when the haircuts were popular. But no reference to mullet as a hairstyle appeared in print before the 1994 Beastie Boys 1994 song "Mullet Head" dubbed it "a way of life." VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT Think of "Mullet" as a 1980s Word? It's Not. Business in the front. Party in the back. And in between, a linguistic mystery. Whether or not you're planning to see the 1980s video game throwback film Pixels this weekend, you won't want to miss the mullet Peter Dinklage sports in his role as Donkey Kong master Eddie Plant. Thanks to a sneak peek in USA Today's EntertainThis! last summer, Dinklage's impressive hairstyle has been making the rounds already. Judging by the prevalence of mullet documentaries, mullet mockumentaries, mullet-based math lesson plans, mullet shaming (Dinklage's high school mullet unearthed by USAToday is a case in point), it's clear the haircut taps a gleeful nostalgic vein. But while the mullet haircut should certainly take us back in time, the word itself should not. Mullet was coined in the 1300s to refer to fish; the word's earliest use as a hairstyle name did not appear in print until 1994, when the Beastie Boys' song "Mullet Head" "had a little story to tell/About a hair style that's way of life." You're coming off like you're Van Damme You've got Kenny G, in your Trans Am You've got names like Billy Ray Now you sing 'Hip Hop Hooray' Put your Oakley's, stone wash on Watching MTV and you watch on And #1 on the side and don't touch the back And #6 on the top and don't cut it wack, Jack Mullet head, don't touch the back Cut the sides, don't touch the back How is this possible, countless have asked in Internet-based discussions, that the haircut didn't find a name until 1994? Certainly we all remember calling those styles mullets back when everyone was wearing them. Or do we? A podcast for the Oxford University Blog tells the story of Oxford Dictionaries' search for an earlier origin. With many Reddit TIL posts attesting to remembering mullet from the 1970s and 1980s, editors could find no reference earlier than the Beasties'. (One of nine Beastie Boys citations in the OED.) The linguistic detective work got interesting when a contributor to a Reddit thread produced a scan of a the printed phrase "mullet-headed" in the January 1992 issue of the Australian car enthusiast's magazine Street Machine. The OED editors were excited to unveil this new, earlier dating of the words, but ran into a snag in the process of confirming the lead. A print copy of a January 1992 edition of Street Machine could not be located in several major libraries in Australia and New Zealand, nor in the archives of Street Machine collectors. The libraries and collectors were able to produce, however, a double January/February 1992 issue of Street Machine, which included a story identical to the scanned story in every respect save the inclusion of the word mullet. This left two possibilities: either the January 1992 issue was a near-untraceable special release, or the original Reddit responder had made alterations to the January/February 1992 edition. Katherine Martin, head of Oxford Dictionaries, holds out hope for the former. "Why would anyone go to all this trouble to hoodwink the OED?" But hoodwinked or no, it seems that at least for now the word is firmly located in the 1990s. Graeme Diamond, Editorial Content Director for The Oxford English Dictionary, speculates as to why so many of us insist on backdating our memories of this word. People confuse the word [mullet] with the phenomenon. Certainly you think of the haircut — long in the back, short in the front — as quite the 80s thing. But…at that point, when they were at the height of their popularity, it was actually a fairly unremarkable haircut and didn't need a name more than any normal haircut. What do you think? Is it a little hard to believe that mullets were not named as such until most people had stopped wearing them? Or possible that back in the 1980s, the word haircut simply said it all? WORD FAMILY mullet: mullets USAGE EXAMPLES Trout are fair on the guts and on shell on soft plastics and finger mullet. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Redfish are good on the beachfront on shad and mullet. Washington Times(Dec 14, 2016) “In 2025 and beyond, we may need to replace cod and other old favourites with warm-water species such as squid, mackerel, sardine and red mullet.” Time(Dec 12, 2016) 1n freshwater or coastal food fishes with a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper gray mullet, grey mullet Mugil cephalus, striped mullet most important commercial mullet in eastern United States Mugil curema, white mullet silvery mullet of Atlantic and Pacific coasts Mugil liza, liza similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes 2n bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin Hypo\|Hyper Mullus surmuletus, goatfish, red mullet, surmullet brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels Mullus auratus, red goatfish body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side Mulloidichthys martinicus, yellow goatfish schooling goatfish; greyish with yellow stripe bottom-dweller, bottom-feeder a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes 3n highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet Syn\|Hyper gray mullet, grey mullet fish the flesh of fish used as food
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