Definition of skinhead
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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Does a documentary that takes a seemingly uncritical, almost reality-TV-style look at a small-town wannabe skinhead like the 36-year-old Daliborek amount to giving him a platform for his admittedly confused or at least not very consistent ideas?
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Far-right militias, skinheads, white-boy fight clubs and almost every group The Root has been warning readers about showed up for the festivities.
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The jury assessed $12.5 million in damages against the leaders, their organization and two of the skinheads involved in the beating.
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The three skinheads who murdered Seraw were White Aryan Resistance followers.
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Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat by a group of Portland skinheads in 1988.
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In 1998, a carload of skinheads beat an Ethiopian man to death.
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A nearby text-and-photography installation goes further, arguing that white skinhead culture is also derived from black culture, particularly rude boy Jamaican street culture.
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While Le Pen got an endorsement from her father, Macron held an emotional meeting with a Moroccan man whose father died years ago when he was thrown off a Paris bridge by far-right skinheads.
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First Known Use of skinhead
1943
SKINHEAD Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of skinhead for English Language Learners
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: a person with a shaved head; especially : a young white person who belongs to a gang whose members shave their heads and have racist beliefs
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