HANDLE-BARS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handle-bars mean? 

• HANDLE-BARS (noun)
  The noun HANDLE-BARS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HANDLE-BARS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDLE-BARS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

handle-bars; moustachio; mustachio

Hypernyms ("handle-bars" is a kind of...):

moustache; mustache (an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip)

 Context examples 

Joe was halfway down to the saloon when Martin passed by, bending low over the handle-bars, his legs driving the ninety-six gear with rhythmic strength, his face set for seventy miles of road and grade and dust.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)