Dictionary

skinhead en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈskɪn.hɛd/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kenH- Proto-Germanic *skinþąder. Middle English skyn English skin substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head English skinhead From skin + head.

Meanings

1. Someone with a shaved head.
2. 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 all over their skulls. They dance the Reggae, a West Indian shuffle, and they drink Coca Cola and they whip up riots at soccer games. 1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts. 2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth:

Forms

Deriveds

skinheadism · skunk · skinheaded

Synonyms

baldy · baldhead · slaphead · follicly challenged · baldie · Mr. Clean · egghead · Baldilocks · baldpate · skin · cue ball · chrome dome

Translations (44)

hi स्किन्हेड (member of subculture) · fi skinhead (member of subculture) · ja スキン (member of subculture) · ar سْكِينْهِيد (member of subculture) · he סקינהד (member of subculture) · fr skinhead (member of subculture) · ru скин (member of subculture) · ru бритоголо́вый (member of subculture) · tg скинхед (member of subculture) · cmn 光頭 /光头 (member of subculture) · fi skini (member of subculture) · uk скін (member of subculture) · th สกินเฮด (member of subculture) · ko 스킨헤드 (member of subculture) · hu bőrfejű (member of subculture) · pl skinhead (member of subculture) · be скін (member of subculture) · vi gã đầu trọc (member of subculture) · pl skin (member of subculture) · pt skinhead (member of subculture) · uk скінхе́д (member of subculture) · sl obritoglavec (member of subculture) · gl skinhead (member of subculture) · az skinhed (member of subculture) · hy սափրագլուխ (member of subculture) · sk skín (member of subculture) · ru скинхе́д (member of subculture) · et skinheed (member of subculture) · ja スキンヘッド (member of subculture) · cmn 光頭黨 /光头党 (member of subculture) · sk skinhed (member of subculture) · pl łysy (member of subculture) · sv skinnskalle (member of subculture) · it skinhead (member of subculture) · pl łysol (member of subculture) · sv skinhead (member of subculture) · hy սկինհեդ (member of subculture) · bg скинхе́д (member of subculture) · ka სკინჰედი (member of subculture) · be скінхэ́д (member of subculture) · hu szkinhed (member of subculture) · ba таҡырбаш (member of subculture) · de Skinhead (member of subculture) · pl skinio (member of subculture)