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Noun: skinheads  'skin,hedz
  1. A youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism
    - bootboys
Noun: skinhead  'skin,hed
  1. A member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
    - skin [informal]
     
  2. A person whose head is bald or shaved
    - baldhead, baldpate, baldy [informal], skin [informal], baldie [informal]

Type of: bully, hooligan, individual, mortal, ned [UK, informal], person, roughneck [informal], rowdy, ruffian, scally [UK, informal], somebody, someone, soul, tough [informal], yob [Brit, informal], yobbo [Brit, informal], yobo [Brit, informal], youth subculture

Encyclopedia: Skinheads

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