SKINHEAD
Dictionary entry overview: What does skinhead mean? • SKINHEAD (noun)
The noun SKINHEAD has 1 sense:
1. a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations
Familiarity information: SKINHEAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SKINHEAD (noun)
Meaning:
A young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("skinhead" is a kind of...):
bully; hooligan; roughneck; rowdy; ruffian; tough; yob; yobbo; yobo (a cruel and brutal fellow)
Holonyms ("skinhead" is a member of...):
bootboys; skinheads (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)
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