skinhead

noun

skin·​head ˈskin-ˌhed How to pronounce skinhead (audio)
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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Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room (2015) saw a group of young punks fight for survival against a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in a reclamation of punk, not only as a music genre but as a lifestyle. Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024 The actress played Edward Norton's skinhead girlfriend in American History X (1998), Adam Sandler's love interest in The Waterboy (1998), and a groupie alongside Kate Hudson in the Oscar-winning film Almost Famous (2000). Danny Horn, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024 Skrewdriver was first active as a skinhead/Oi! band in the Seventies and became an explicitly white nationalist, neo-Nazi group after frontman Ian Stuart Donaldson resurrected the group in the Eighties (Donaldson died in 1993). Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024 Tensions rise further when Fus has a run-in with radical leftists who appear to be as violent as the skinheads. Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for skinhead 

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of skinhead was in 1943

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“Skinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skinhead. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.

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