See also: protomullet

English edit

Noun edit

proto-mullet (plural proto-mullets)

  1. Alternative form of protomullet
    • 2002 December, “All through the house…”, in CMJ New Music Monthly:
      The 47-track Best Of Bowie DVD ($34.98, store.davidbowie.com) collects every single one of David Bowie's looks, from his finest dresses to tailored suits, skintight jumpers to clown costumes, proto-mullets to pompadours.
    • 2003, Tamara Sheward, Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveller in Southeast Asia, Academy Chicago Publishers, published 2007, →ISBN, page 104:
      Rather than leading the world in glamour and style, the majority of continentals seem to have been left behind in an era when proto-mullets, moonwalk loafers and white socks were right up there with Pac Man and rollerblades.
    • 2012 March 29, Mark Olsen, “By-the-numbers 'Wrath of the Titans' lets down cast of able performers ? 1/2”, in Chicago Tribune:
      The new story opens with our hero Perseus (Sam Worthington) as a widower and single father, his curly proto-mullet signaling that he has given up on soldiering and is determined to live as a simple fisherman.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:proto-mullet.