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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But the darkness is in the details: The groups’ membership often overlaps with other extremist organizations like Patriot Front, criminal skinhead groups like the Hammerskins, and other violent extremists in foreign nations.
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Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
Wade Page, a Nazi skinhead and former U.S. Army soldier, had murdered six Sikh worshippers at a temple outside of Milwaukee a decade earlier.
—A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2022
The behind-the-scene conspiracy thriller follows the drama on a German film shoot, a production about real-life arson attacks on a Turkish family by German skinheads, that kicks off when a copy of the Quran is burnt on set.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2025
The skinhead had always been a dangerously ambiguous figure, a lairy ghost at successive banquets, claimed and reclaimed time and again.
—Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
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Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
Wade Page, a Nazi skinhead and former U.S. Army soldier, had murdered six Sikh worshippers at a temple outside of Milwaukee a decade earlier.
—A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2022
The behind-the-scene conspiracy thriller follows the drama on a German film shoot, a production about real-life arson attacks on a Turkish family by German skinheads, that kicks off when a copy of the Quran is burnt on set.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2025
The skinhead had always been a dangerously ambiguous figure, a lairy ghost at successive banquets, claimed and reclaimed time and again.
—Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for skinhead
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“Skinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skinhead. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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