faux-hawk

noun

ˈfō-ˌhȯk

variants or less commonly faux hawk or fauxhawk

plural faux-hawks also faux hawks or fauxhawks

: a hairstyle resembling a Mohawk (see mohawk entry 1 sense 3) in having a central ridge of upright hair but with the sides gathered or slicked upward or back instead of shaved

… a brand-new photo from a shoot in which she's wearing a makeshift mohawk. A faux-hawk, if you will.—

Kaleigh Fasanella

His hair is more of a fauxhawk now, long all over but gelled up into bleached-blond spikes at the top.—

Billy Haisley

also : a hairstyle with a wider area of upright hair than a Mohawk and with the sides and often the back shaved or closely cropped

"… I love the faux-hawk, I love the fade … up to the messy hair. … " —

Sergio Morales

Three-time Grammy winner Gwen Stefani gave her boyfriend Blake Shelton a trim … . The 50-year-old pop diva used clippers to cut the sides of his head, which wound up looking more like a faux-hawk than the … mullet she originally attempted … —

Cassie Carpenter

The faux hawk is a subdued version of the authority-challenging mohawk but without the shaved sides and neon colors. … The cut is important because the middle is left longer so that the hair can be pushed up to create the faux-hawk look. —

Daniel J. Vargas

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Don't worry about Ben Affleck and his new faux-hawk. —

Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Aug. 2024 Apodaca, a biologist with a salt-and-pepper faux-hawk, was looking for a creature that, to an untrained eye, might be impossible to find: a rare salamander that lives hidden in narrow crevices no larger than an inch wide. —

Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024 That was all Stephen, as was Rih’s faux-hawk swoop in 2009. —

Christine Werthman, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024 Hairstylist Adir Abergel, who frequently works with the actor and crafted her faux-hawk for the 2024 Golden Globes, was behind the half-and-half style. —

Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 Jan. 2024 Of course, Pugh's beauty game was similarly daring; her quirky faux-hawk adding some lovely edge to the ensemble as well. —

Christian Allaire, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024