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• Mohican
  Mohican

  noun

  Mahican.
• mohican
  mohican

  noun

  a punk hairstyle in which the head is shaved at the sides and the remaining strip of hair is worn stiffly erect and sometimes brightly coloured

Mohican

American  

[moh-hee-kuhn] / moʊˈhi kən /

noun

Mohicans plural

1. Mahican.

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Mohican ¹ British  

/ ˈməʊɪkən, məʊˈhiːkən, məˈhiːkən /

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Hudson river and east of it

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

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mohican ² British  

/ məʊˈhiːkən /

noun

1. a punk hairstyle in which the head is shaved at the sides and the remaining strip of hair is worn stiffly erect and sometimes brightly coloured

2. a person wearing such a hairstyle

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Inflected Forms

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• Mohicans
  plural
• Mohican
  plural

Example Sentences

In the African bush in southern Kenya, Lucy King watched an elephant nicknamed Mohican rest under an acacia tree, seemingly nonplussed by an overhead beehive.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021

Beyond state and city efforts, George Preston, president of the nearby Mohican Regent Resident Association, said all the community groups in the 48205 are uniting to come up with ways to better the neighborhoods.

From Washington Times • May 7, 2018

Jacobs is a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation, a Native American tribe in central Wisconsin.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2017

The set depicts a delegation of tribal leaders, three Mohawk, one Mohican, shipped by the British military to London to request more troops to fight the French in North America.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2017

Finally, the Mohican himself reappeared, divested of all his attire except his girdle and leggings, and with one-half of his fine features hid under a cloud of threatening black.

From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore