mustache
noun
the hair growing on the upper lip
mustaches
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pluralof mustache.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In something of an irony, Lotus’s historic approach to cornering and traction management—crossed up, tail out, mustaches ablaze—looks a lot like what the kids call drifting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Of course, there is something absurd about celebrity chefs needing fake mustaches, prosthetics or entire undercover personas to determine that a restaurant is poorly run.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
His peers could dunk basketballs and had mustaches; he was in eighth grade but had barely hit puberty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
Some of the women donned fake mustaches that mimicked Rome’s as they all toyed with possible explanations for what they had found.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 2024
They will stride forward, hands outstretched, girls from high school bloated or diminished, skins crinkled, frowns permanent, smooth-fleshed boyfriends of thirty years ago who’ve gone bald or grown mustaches or shrunk.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
