[Mo.hawk] n, pl Mohawk or Mohawks [of Algonquian origin; akin to Narraganset or Massachuset Mohowawog Mohawk, lit., cannibal] (1634) 1: a member of an American Indian people of the Mohawk River valley, New York
2: the Iroquoian language of the Mohawk people
3: a hairstyle with a narrow center strip of upright hair and the sides shaved