Definitions

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  • noun informal A more extreme form of the mullet hairstyle, in which the hair at the back is kept long, whilst the hair on the top and the sides is shaven in a buzzcut or skinhead style.

Etymologies

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Blend of skull and mullet

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Examples

  • Mmmm. I just wrote a post about my daughter's hair about a week and a half ago, and yes, she too has a mullet or rather a "skullet" as a friend likes to call it because there is really no "business" up front.

    Baby Fine Tresses kittenpie 2006

  • Steve Howe may have the whole 'skullet' thing going on these days, but there's no denying he's one of the best guitarists out there.

    Starpulse Entertainment News 2008

  • Steve Howe may have the whole 'skullet' thing going on these days, but there's no denying he's one of the best guitarists out there.

    Starpulse Entertainment News 2008

  • Steve Howe may have the whole 'skullet' thing going on these days, but there's no denying he's one of the best guitarists out there.

    Starpulse Entertainment News 2008

  • And since his profile picture features Al Iafrate's skullet, who am I to doubt his honesty?

    Wizards broadcast mentions vast virus database Dan Steinberg 2011

  • * If he really came from a monkey, do you think Benjamin Franklin could have discovered electricity, invented the pot-belly stove, bifocals, the odometer, and catheters, and convinced really attractive French ladies to hit that, even though he was past 70 and sporting a skullet?

    Jilly Gagnon: Christian Nation 2010

  • * If he really came from a monkey, do you think Benjamin Franklin could have discovered electricity, invented the pot-belly stove, bifocals, the odometer, and catheters, and convinced really attractive French ladies to hit that, even though he was past 70 and sporting a skullet?

    Christian Nation 2010

  • I may even gasp before I understand that no one is maliciously attacking with feline fecal matter, but that there is a full grown man in my proximity who has decided of his own volition to sport a mullet or a skullet with atrophied dreadlocks, often less than three inches long in a little clump at the base of his skull.

    Matador Network 2010

  • As skullet-rocking, semi-reformed psycho Lynch, you're at the bad end of an arms deal gone wrong and you've just roped in your frenemy, the more even-keeled Kane.

    Joystiq 2010

  • He dissolved his old bands before the birth of his first son in 2006 and has since reinvented himself yet again, shaving off his famous skullet and getting clean and sober.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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