Mohican

1. a hairstyle with the head shaved except for a strip of hair from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck, typically stiffened to stand erect or in spikes.

   I was a nihilistic punk with a Mohican and a ring in my nose

   a Mohican haircut

1950s (as Mohican haircut ): erroneously associated with the North American Indian people (see Mohican²), from illustrations or film adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans . See also Huron.

noun

old-fashioned spelling of Mahican (noun) or Mohegan (noun).

adjective

old-fashioned spelling of Mahican (adjective) or Mohegan (adjective).

1. a member of a North American people formerly inhabiting the Upper Hudson Valley in New York State.
2. the extinct Algonquian language of the Mahicans.

adjective

relating to the Mahicans or their language.

the name in Mahican, said to mean ‘wolf’.

1. a member of an Algonquian people formerly inhabiting part of Connecticut.
2. the extinct Algonquian language of the Mohegan.

adjective

relating to the Mohegans or their language.

from Mohegan, literally ‘people of the tidal waters’.