soup-strainer

Bushy facial hair

A soup-strainer is a large, bushy mustache—the kind that would filter soup as you drink it.

The term is humorous and old-fashioned: Grandpa's been growing that soup-strainer since the seventies.

mustache

handlebar

Bicycle steering control

grooming · wax · trim · bristles · barbershop · stache · horseshoe · chevron · pencil · Fu Manchu

slang

old-fashioned

Belonging to earlier times

quaint · Americana · jocular · nickname · euphemism · whimsical · retro · folksy · colorful · idiom

Opposites
facial hair presence

soup-strainerclean-shaven

Having no beard

baby face · hairless

type of facial hair

soup-strainergoatee

Chin-only beard style

full beard · mutton chops · soul patch · sideburns · beard

Family

soup, strainer, soups, soupy, strain, strains, strained, straining

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G