frohawk

frohawk
n.
An afro styled as a mohawk. Also: 'frohawk, fro-hawk, 'fro-hawk.
Example Citations:
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: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/hip-hop-barbers-break-down-race-barrier/article1601555/," The Globe and mail, June 11, 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': http://www.nola.com/tv/index.ssf/2010/04/local_singers_do_their_sunday.html," Times-Picayune, April 30, 2010
Earliest Citation:
frohawk A poofy mohawk that black people can make with their afro. Isaiah Nevins is the creator of the Frohawk.
—The Gwito-Optomy, " frohawk: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frohawk," Urban Dictionary, November 6, 2003
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