Definitions

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  • noun slang for a mustache

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Examples

  • I will personally be growing my soup-strainer out for this important cause.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Remember, Remember the first of Movember 2007

  • Skim occasionally, and after two hours add two tablespoons of sherry; then strain through fine soup-strainer or cheese-cloth.

    Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

  • "If he uses that damned shrubbery as soup-strainer to-night, I'll slosh him with a fork!"

    The Adventures of Sally 1928

  • His ragged red mustache, ordinarily of the soup-strainer pattern, he had trimmed, waxed, and turned up at each end; the barber put much pomade on his hair and combed it in a

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • Skim occasionally, and after two hours add two tablespoons of sherry; then strain through fine soup-strainer or cheese-cloth.

    Simple Italian Cookery 1912

  • Leading the group was a chipper little dago with a bristling head of hair and soup-strainer to match, and at his elbow a hulking fellow who was all beard and pouched eyes; they were Rassam and Blanc, and they were the fellows who, with Prideaux, had carried the first request for Cameron’s release to Theodore two years ago, and been promptly jailed themselves.

    Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

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