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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The mullet is a
hairstyle that is short at the front and sides, and long in the back.
Often ridiculed as a lowbrow and unappealing hairstyle, the mullet began
to appear in popular media in the 1960s and 1970s but did not become
generally well-known until the early 1980s. It continued to be popular
until the mid-1990s and has enjoyed a partial return to favor as a retro
look in the 2000s. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term
mullet was "apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by U.S.
hip-hop group the Beastie Boys", who used "mullet" and "mullet head" as
epithets in their 1994 song "Mullet Head". Their fanzine, Grand Royal
Magazine, was the first to use the term in print. In Canada, and the
northern United States, the hairstyle is known as "hockey hair" or
"hockey player haircut", as it was common among their ice hockey players
in the 1980s.
