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 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

The music was industrial, with guitar jams, drum riffs, and dramatically shifting tempos that propulsed a screaming Osbourne to rail and wail about war, the establishment, religion, skinheads and drugs. —David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for skinhead

• abed
• ahead
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• bedspread
• bedstead
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• blockhead
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• bridgehead