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A distinctive style of dress common among academic professors: a dress shirt and sport jacket paired with blue jeans. It is named after the mullet hairstyle since it can be described as "business on top, party on the bottom".
"I just got back from a big cell biology conference, and I've never seen so many academic mullets in one place."
by Ipsitilla December 06, 2007
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A cultural and aesthetic mind-state that prioritizes making money, even as an “underground” or “radical” creator. The work isn’t made for money, but it’s the money that matters the most.
“Dude, his stuff is pretty out there but he’s still pretty Finance Punk.”
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When an individual attends a private, Ivy League institution for undergrad followed by a public, state institution for graduate work.

A “business in the former, party in the latter,” if you will.
That dude has a total academic mullet. He went to Yale for undergrad and SUNY Cortland for his master’s degree...
by MackieD. October 24, 2019
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