Fu Manchu mustache

Fu Manchu mustache
/fooh" man chooh"/
a mustache whose ends droop to the chin. Also called Fu Manchu.
[1935-40; after the mustache worn by Fu Manchu, an Oriental master criminal in films of the 1920s and '30s, based on novels by British author Sax Rohmer (1883-1959)]

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