mustache

noun

mus·tache ˈmə-ˌstash

(ˌ)mə-ˈstash

variants or less commonly moustache

: the hair growing on the human upper lip

especially : such hair grown and often trimmed in a particular style

his long mustache combed and waxed —

Henry Petroski

: hair or bristles about the mouth of a mammal

mustached adjective

or less commonly moustached

ˈmə-ˌstasht

(ˌ)mə-ˈstasht

Examples of mustache in a Sentence

He used a small pair of scissors to trim his mustache. He decided to grow a mustache. The actor was wearing a false mustache.

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The polarizing subject received rekindled attention on social media earlier this week when Williams shaved all but a mustache a day after reporting to spring training. —

Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2025 The mustache, too, lives on, and he’s trimmed his hair into more of a pixie cut. —

Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025 The painting underneath, however, is an image of an unknown man with a mustache holding a quill and standing next to a stack of papers. —

Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 7 Feb. 2025 By Kaitlyn Tiffany The #Democrat and #Democrats hashtags, on Instagram, are affixed to a lot of low-quality content: a crying Statue of Liberty; Elon Musk with a Hitler mustache; other, worse memes that aren’t even decipherable. —

Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for mustache