frohawk
n. An afro styled as a mohawk.
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2010
Back at work, Mr. Tulloch combs and shapes 13-year-old Gregory Caesar's hair, ploughing an ever-shorter furrow with his clippers. His hair is taking the shape of a shark's fin. If there's anything that unites the cultures, Mr. Tulloch said, it's this hairstyle. Call it the mohawk, the faux-hawk or, as Mr. Caesar does, the "'fro-hawk," everyone wants it.
—Joe Friesen, “Hip-hop barbers break the race barrier,” The Globe and mail, June 12, 2010
2010
Sporting a sharp 'frohawk that day, though, he was not exactly easy to picture in a choir robe.
—Dave Walker, “Local singers do their 'Sunday Best',” Times-Picayune, April 30, 2010
2003 (earliest)
frohawk A poofy mohawk that black people can make with their afro.
Isaiah Nevins is the creator of the Frohawk.
—The Gwito-Optomy, “frohawk,” Urban Dictionary, November 06, 2003
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