Mo‧hi‧can /məʊˈhiːkən $ moʊ-/ British English, Mo‧hawk /ˈməʊhɔːk $ ˈmoʊhɒːk/ American English noun [countable]
[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: From the hairstyle worn by Native American men in J. Fenimore Cooper's novel Last of the Mohicans (1826)]
a hairstyle in which the hair is cut off the sides of the head, and the hair on top of the head is made to stick up and is sometimes brightly coloured
—Mohican adjective:
a Mohican haircut

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