mustache

Or mous·tache

[muhs-tash, muh-stash]

noun

1. the hair growing on the upper lip

2. such hair on men, allowed to grow without shaving, and often trimmed in any of various shapes.

3. hairs or bristles growing near the mouth of an animal.

4. a stripe of color, or elongated feathers, suggestive of a mustache on the side of the head of a bird.

5. something resembling a mustache, as food or drink adhering to the upper lip.

   a mustache of milk.

mustache

/ məˈstɑːʃ /

noun

1. the US spelling of moustache

Other Word Forms

• mustached adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mustache¹

1575–85; < Middle French moustache < Italian mostaccio; mustachio

Example Sentences

There are old cars, of course, and more mustaches than we are currently accustomed to.

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No strolling waiters in ponchos placing sombreros on unsuspecting diners, no fake mustaches.

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This Christmas, we owe it to ourselves to see that boy earn his thin, little mustache!

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Tap any portion of modern celebrity culture — good, bad and ugly — and there’s Hulk Hogan, all handle-bar mustache and “Let me tell you something, brother.”

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Activists spoke of additional infractions, publishing videos depicting government-affiliated gunmen forcibly shaving the mustaches of captured Druze fighters and harassing Druze civilians.

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