handlebar mustache


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handlebar mustache

n.
A long curved mustache resembling the curved ends of a handlebar.
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han′dlebar mustache′


n.
a man's mustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
[1885–90]
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Toy's Sioux ancestry was well disguised behind a handlebar mustache. Another Cleveland player, Louis Francis Sockalexis, a Penobscot, is properly credited by the author as being the pioneer who initiated the then-known American Indian integration of Major League baseball.
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Bob looked like one of the Allman Brothers: thin, junkie pale, with shoulder-length hair, a handlebar mustache, and an ever-present acoustic guitar that he'd occasionally strum while belting out parodies of Bob Dylan songs.
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