horseshoe moustache

English
Hulk Hogan and horseshoe moustache.

Alternative forms
  • horseshoe mustache

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɔːs.ʃuː məsˈtɑːʃ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɔːɹs.ʃuː ˈmʌstæʃ/
  • Hyphenation: horse‧shoe‧mou‧stache

Noun

horseshoe moustache (plural horseshoe moustaches)

  1. A moustache covering the lip and having vertical extensions reaching down from the corners of the lips to the jawline, resembling an upside-down U or a horseshoe.
    • 2013, Paul Lynch, Red Sky in Morning‎, →ISBN, page 151:
      They stood atop the rock with hand-held hammers and they beat the bit of the drills into the rock and it dulled their tools and the blacksmith set up station nearby, a man with sorrowful steel eyes and a sad horseshoe moustache, forging and heat-treating and resharpening.

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