Mohican
noun/məʊˈhiːkən/
/məʊˈhiːkən/
(especially British English) (also Mohawk
/ˈməʊhɔːk/
/ˈməʊhɔːk/
especially in North American English)- a way of cutting the hair in which it is removed from the head by shaving except for a narrow area of hair in the middle that is sometimes made to stick upTopics Appearancec2Word Origin1960s: mistakenly associated with the American Indian people.
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