A mallet is a kind of hammer. Mallet is also the proper US English term for a Polo stick. Mallet may also refer to: Places Mallet, Paraná, a municipality in southern Brazil Mallet, Rio de Janeiro, a region in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mont Mallet, a mountain in France Mallet Creek (disambiguation), in Ohio, USA Mallet Ranch, a historic ranch in Texas, USA Mallet (crater), a crater on the Moon Other uses Mallet percussion, a percussion instrument Percussion mallet, the mallet used with a percussion instrument Mallet locomotive, a specific type of steam locomotive Mallet (surname) (including a list of people with the name) Mallet family, a French family of bankers and businessmen Mallet (software project), a collection of java code for natural language processing tasks Mallet, a common placeholder name for an attacker in computer security, see Alice and Bob Mallet, alternative term for marlock, a shrubby or small-tree form of Eucalyptus Mallet (habit), a small-tree form of Eucalyptus found in Western Australia Mallet Assembly, an autonomous honors program at the University of Alabama See also Curry Mallet, England Shepton Mallet, England Malet Mallett, a surname Mullet (disambiguation) fa:کوبه (ابهام‌زدایی)