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

Examples of skinhead in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The white power movement has a long history here, going back to the days when the Ku Klux Klan could march freely through Orange County and skinheads rocked out to punk in Huntington Beach. — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026

The film also links the crime to extremist violence and skinhead culture. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026

Louis is such a tough customer that Frank would sooner be assigned to the unit’s biggest skinhead — at least that guy is too far gone to hate people anymore. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026

The series finds an instructive case in one particular pastor, whose trajectory as a neo-Nazi skinhead turned vehement anti-racist makes for a compelling tale. — Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for skinhead

• abed
• ahead
• beachhead
• bedspread
• bedstead
• behead
• blackhead
• blockhead
• bloodshed
• bowhead
• breastfed
• bridgehead