skinhead
noun
skin·head
ˈskin-ˌhed 
1
: a person whose hair is cut very short
2
: a usually white male belonging to any of various sometimes violent youth gangs whose members have close-shaven hair and often espouse white-supremacist beliefs
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The com network is also connected to a nihilist Eastern European skinhead crew whose members are accused of a series of random attacks and killings in Ukraine and Russia.
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Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
Knut Johnson, an attorney representing Sylvester, started his opening statement by assuring the jury that the charge his client faces — the 2011 murder of a skinhead gang member named Ronald Richardson — would not be a whodunit.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
Patrick Stewart costars, playing against type as the ruthless leader of the film's villainous band of neo-Nazi skinheads.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
One night in 1986—before current members Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, and Adrian Young were in the band—No Doubt had finished playing a backyard gig to punks, mods, skinheads, and other degenerates in their hometown of Anaheim, Ca.
—Stephanie Mendez, SPIN, 2 Feb. 2024
The 58-year-old Danish actor has played cold-hearted billionaires and evil sorcerers, skinheads and Vikings, Nazis and serial-killing cannibals.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
Europe’s far right has sought to clean up its image, trading skinhead attire for suits.
—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
Enter Beau Bridges, playing a sheriff who’s been teleported into the movie from reruns of either The Dukes of Hazzard or Smokey and the Bandit, and who joins a collection of unsavory locals that also includes a meth-head (Tabatha Shaun) and a skinhead (Keith Jardine).
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
Lowery relays the 2012 massacre at a Sikh temple, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in which Wade Michael Page, a forty-year-old skinhead who was active in the neo-Nazi music scene, fatally shot six people and wounded four others, in part, through the eyes of a pair of radicalism researchers.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
Knut Johnson, an attorney representing Sylvester, started his opening statement by assuring the jury that the charge his client faces — the 2011 murder of a skinhead gang member named Ronald Richardson — would not be a whodunit.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
Patrick Stewart costars, playing against type as the ruthless leader of the film's villainous band of neo-Nazi skinheads.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
One night in 1986—before current members Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, and Adrian Young were in the band—No Doubt had finished playing a backyard gig to punks, mods, skinheads, and other degenerates in their hometown of Anaheim, Ca.
—Stephanie Mendez, SPIN, 2 Feb. 2024
The 58-year-old Danish actor has played cold-hearted billionaires and evil sorcerers, skinheads and Vikings, Nazis and serial-killing cannibals.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
Europe’s far right has sought to clean up its image, trading skinhead attire for suits.
—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
Enter Beau Bridges, playing a sheriff who’s been teleported into the movie from reruns of either The Dukes of Hazzard or Smokey and the Bandit, and who joins a collection of unsavory locals that also includes a meth-head (Tabatha Shaun) and a skinhead (Keith Jardine).
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
Lowery relays the 2012 massacre at a Sikh temple, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in which Wade Michael Page, a forty-year-old skinhead who was active in the neo-Nazi music scene, fatally shot six people and wounded four others, in part, through the eyes of a pair of radicalism researchers.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
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