skinheads
skinheads is the plural of skinhead.
Meaning of skinhead
Noun
skinhead (plural skinheads)
- Someone with a shaved head.
- Synonyms:
- baldhead, baldie, baldy, Baldilocks, baldpate, chrome dome, cue ball, follicly challenged, egghead, slaphead
- A member of a subculture that arose among working-class youth in late 1960s England or its diaspora, defined by close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing, and often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.
- Their rules haven't changed: Skinheads are very young, mostly between the ages of 13 and 18, and they come from strictly working class backgrounds. They wear short‐ankled denims, T‐shirts, suspenders and heavy boots known as Bovverboots (Botherboots), and their hair is shorn to an eighth of an inch...1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- skin
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Questions about skinheads
- What is skinheads the plural of?
- Skinheads is the plural of skinhead.
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