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Mo⋅hawk

  [moh-hawk]
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–noun, plural -hawks, (especially collectively) -hawk.
1. a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
2. the Iroquoian language of the Mohawk Indians.
3. a river flowing E from central New York to the Hudson. 148 mi. (240 km) long.
4. (often lowercase) Also called Mohawk haircut. a hairstyle in which the head is shaved bare except for a strip of hair, usually with blunt, brushlike ends, down the center of the scalp from the forehead to the nape of the neck.
5. Military. a twin turboprop, two-seat U.S. Army aircraft fitted with cameras, radar, and infrared sensors and designed to monitor enemy operations.
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Mo·hawk 1   (mō'hôk')   
n.   pl. Mohawk or Mo·hawks

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting northeast New York along the Mohawk and upper Hudson valleys north to the St. Lawrence River, with present-day populations chiefly in southern Ontario and extreme northern New York. The Mohawk were the easternmost member of the Iroquois confederacy.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Iroquoian language of the Mohawk.


[Narragansett Mohowaúg.]
Mo·hawk 2   (mō'hôk')   
n.   pl. Mo·hawks
A hairstyle in which the scalp is shaved except for an upright strip of hair that runs across the crown of the head from the forehead to the nape of the neck.

[After Mohawk1.]
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Mohawk 
"haircut style favored by punk rockers," c.1975, from fancied resemblance to hair style of Mohawk Indians. The style of cut earlier was called a Mohican (1960). The tribe name Mohawk (1638) is said to mean "they eat living things" in Algonquian, probably a ref. to cannibalism. Variant form Mohoc was the name given 1711 to gangs of aristocratic London ruffians.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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