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What is mohawk?

a hairstyle created originally by ancient aboriginal, native american, and african tribes, including the (Native American) Iroquois Nation, The Sudanese, and a few other Native American and African tribes.

This hairstyle today in urban culture is used mostly by music inspired subcultures, and has been brought to the public eye at large by such celebrities as Mr. T, Robert Deniro (In the movie; "Taxi Driver"), P. Diddy, Grace Jones, Music Video Director Bryan Barber, World Cup soccer star Clint Mathis and others.

The mohawks used by ancient tribes ranged from a simple strip of hair from the forehead to the nape of the neck, with the rest of the head shaved, to a tiny thin strip, from the forehead to the middle of the back of the head, with the rest shaved.

Modern incarnations of the mohawk used by subcultures are typically shaped into spikes or a "fan" shape, and held together with Knox gelatin, glue, or "freeze gel".

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Mohawk - what is it?

1. much-discussed hairstyle
2. a tribe of indians
3. A basic 180-degree turn in figure skating or ice dancing. A mohawk will turn your face and body but not your direction of travel, so before the turn you are skating forward, and after it you are skating backward. Mohawks can be performed on the inside or outside edges of the skating blades, and with an open or a closed foot position. In television-broadcasted competitions, a mohawk is usually seen in ice dancing, although they are sometimes used for the performance of certain jumps. In that instance, a mohawk replaces a 3-turn as the last step before the skater jumps into the air. The difference with a 3-turn is that a 3-turn turns on 1 foot, where as the mohawk changes feet during the turn.

She has textbook-perfect technique on her double salchow jump, but somehow she can only do it from a mohawk entrance, not from a 3-turn!

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What does "mohawk" mean?

*Additional to earlier definition* Sorry, I misinformed you people, it was Plasmatics lead guitarist Richie Stotts who was one of the first to introduce the mohawk as punk rock chic, not Wes Beech. I've read references to bihawks and trihawks... another variant on the style is the Trojan... longer at the front, tapering off gradually to the back.

Richie Stotts, along with Discharge bassist Rainy, were two of the first punk rockers to introduce the mohawk hairstyle to that particular genre.

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Mohawk - what does it mean?

the hottest hair cut around. mainly for punks

my dream guy is a mohawk guy!

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Mohawk - meaning

1. Kickass hairstyle derived from indians. Usually a strip of hair going from your forehead and down the neck with the sides of your head shaved.

2. Magical hairstyle that instantly makes you attractive to the female eye.

1. Man I love those Mohawk indians, they've created the coolest hairstyle since hard boiled eggs.

2. I just got to the night club when some cute girl started tugging at me, now I have her number and she want's to get it on!

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Mohawk - definition

An awesome hairstyle where the sides of the hair are shaved, leaving a strip of hair in the middle, can be a fan or liberty spikes.
normally associated with punks. punk

Woah that guy has a 2ft mohawk! bloody hell, that IS big!

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Mohawk - slang

1) A hair-style made popular in the early eighties by the scene called "punk".
2) A hair style with shaved sides and hair standing up in the middle (fanned or "liberty spikes")
3) variation: a chelsea-hawk. the girl-form of the mohawk with bangs in front.
4) variation: bihawk: like a mohawk, only with 2 rows instead of one
5) variation: trihawk: a mohawk with a smalled row on each side.

1) that dude from the exploited has a kick-as mohawk!
2) your stupid 6" mohawk is in my way.
3) look atthe hot chick with the chelsea-hawk!
4) he had a huuuge bihawk.
5) her tri-hawk needed a trim.

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Mohawk

a hairstyle where the sides are shaved, leaving a 2-3" strip down the middle that is spiked up or fanned out. most common among street punks. other variations are the bihawk and trihawk

that punk has a 10" fanned mohawk
jake from the casualties has a huge mohawk.

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Mohawk

A hairstyle where the sides are shaved, leaving a 2-3" strip down the middle. Originaly worn by the Iroquois and other Native American tribes. Back then the hair was either plucked by hand or shaved with clam shells.

Mohawk hair cuts became si-nonymous with the Punk scene, other variations are the bihawk and trihawk.

Mohawk Warrior hair cut
that punk has a 10" fanned mohawk
jake from the casualties has a huge mohawk.

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Mohawk

Once, the punkest hairstyle on the planet, adapted and adopted from various native North Americans, including the Huron and Blood tribes. The originators of the mohawk style in punk circles were Wes Beech (of US band Plasmatics) and Rainy (of UK band Discharge). The punks went on to spike their mohawks with soap, eggwhite, glue and hairspray, as the Native Americans had with buffalo grease, before going into battle. A hairstyle which used to guarantee ridicule and abuse from braindead trendies. Since David Beckham's half-arsed style around 2000, the mohawk has become trendy and acceptable, so what's the point?

Now these trendy sheep think a mohawk's cool, I think I'll grow a comb-over instead.

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