mohawk
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- noun
- /ˈmoʊhɔːk/
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mohicano
- He's a lanky kid with a black mohawk, the band's leader.
- mohawk haircut
- spiked mohawk
- blue mohawk
Think of Beckham's Mohawk or cornrows.
- Think of Beckham's Mohawk or cornrows.
- I needed it before college and I had shaved a Mohawk into my pubes.
Examples
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She decided to dye her mohawk bright blue for the festival.
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Whoa, nice mohawk.
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If you had a mohawk, you could go in.
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Your dad let you have a mohawk?
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Hey, I had a mohawk.
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I read in the paper back home that a neighborhood teenager wanted to change his image by giving himself a mohawk.
Fiction book (1991) -
He had a mohawk, but he cut it.
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His head is shaved into a mohawk.
Fiction book (1992) -
He's got a blond mohawk.
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He'd bulked up, and his head was shaved in a mohawk.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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A hairstyle with shaved sides and a strip of long hair down the middle
A long piece of hair left on top of a shaved head, worn in some Indigenous North American cultures
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Etymology
Mohawk comes from the name of the Mohawk people, a Native American group whose warriors were described by early visitors as wearing a narrow 'strip of hair' along the head. So today a mohawk means the haircut with the sides shaved and a longer strip of hair down the middle.