skinhead
noun
skin·head
ˈskin-ˌhed 
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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Mark Herbert, one of its chief executives, produced 2006’s This Is England, the film that gave Graham his breakout role as the volatile young skinhead Combo.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 June 2025
The behind-the-scene conspiracy thriller follows the drama on a German film shoot, a production about real-life arson attacks on a Turkish family by German skinheads, that kicks off when a copy of the Quran is burnt on set.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2025
The skinhead had always been a dangerously ambiguous figure, a lairy ghost at successive banquets, claimed and reclaimed time and again.
—Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
But the darkness is in the details: The groups’ membership often overlaps with other extremist organizations like Patriot Front, criminal skinhead groups like the Hammerskins, and other violent extremists in foreign nations.
—Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 June 2025
The behind-the-scene conspiracy thriller follows the drama on a German film shoot, a production about real-life arson attacks on a Turkish family by German skinheads, that kicks off when a copy of the Quran is burnt on set.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2025
The skinhead had always been a dangerously ambiguous figure, a lairy ghost at successive banquets, claimed and reclaimed time and again.
—Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
But the darkness is in the details: The groups’ membership often overlaps with other extremist organizations like Patriot Front, criminal skinhead groups like the Hammerskins, and other violent extremists in foreign nations.
—Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for skinhead
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“Skinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skinhead. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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