mousse

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
2. noun A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.

   ham mousse

3. noun A styling cream used for hair.

   He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.

4. noun A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
5. verb To apply mousse (styling cream).

   He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.

Similar words

gel hair mousse brew turf eelgrass moss foam froth scum mousseline

Often followed by

and with cake is in or of into au

Word family

moussed mousses moussing