handle-bars

1. 1.

   a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)

   Synonymsmustachiomoustachio

   Broadermustache

Questions about handle-bars

What does handle-bars mean?

handle-bars means "a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)".

How many syllables are in handle-bars?

handle-bars has 3 syllables: hand-le--bars. The stress falls on "hand".

What is another word for handle-bars?

Close synonyms include mustachio, moustachio. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is handle-bars a common word?

handle-bars is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.