mullet-headed

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   dated informal, disparaging: foolish, dull-witted, or slow to notice what is happening

   Tom called the family mullet-headed because they failed to detect his elaborate scheme.

2. 2
   adj

   having a mullet hairstyle

   The photograph showed a mullet-headed guitarist on a brightly lit stage.

From mullet + headed. The older insult compares a person's head or intelligence to that attributed to the fish. The modern hairstyle sense is a separate transparent formation from mullet, the haircut.

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