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. See moustache
   the US spelling of moustache

Derived Forms

• musˈtached, adjective

Other Words From

• mustached adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mustache¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

From Popular-Science

Know 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.

From Popular-Science

So 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.”

From The Daily Beast

I 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.

From The Daily Beast

That’s an extraordinary thing to say to a guy who isn’t a Muslim and just is walking around with a mustache.

From The Daily Beast

From the few photographs of him, we see a stout man with deep Indian features, a thick mustache and stoic face.

From The Daily Beast

They have no reference point other than seeing the Mad Men dudes, or reading one article on Milk and Honey, and like a mustache.

From The Daily Beast

My prom date, Red, sported a wiry mustache and drove a black-and-gold Camaro.

From The Daily Beast

When the mustache-twirler asks her why she helped him, she says, “I know what you want.”

From The Daily Beast

You know, like, throw on a sombrero and a poncho, maybe draw a mustache on my face?

From The Daily Beast

Half a dozen men in that room had the same shade of hair and mustache, and the same ordinary blue eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

He had a waxed mustache which he was in the habit of twisting whenever in deep thought.

From Project Gutenberg

Kip Burland also recognized the handsome, energetic man with the sleek black hair and small, waxed mustache.

From Project Gutenberg

Carlson frowned, remained dramatically silent for a moment while he twisted his mustache.

From Project Gutenberg

Garnache leaned there, in that friendly shelter, to breathe, and he smiled grimly under cover of his mustache.

From Project Gutenberg