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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At around the same time, racist skinhead groups began to emerge in North America, too, some of them linked to the hardcore music scene.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
The victim was 48-year-old Devlin Stringfellow, an Orange County native and co-founder of the skinhead gang known as Public Enemy Number One, or PENI.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
This form of radicalism manifested in a violent, racist skinhead youth culture, which celebrated street fighting and attacks on asylum seekers and immigrants.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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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Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
The victim was 48-year-old Devlin Stringfellow, an Orange County native and co-founder of the skinhead gang known as Public Enemy Number One, or PENI.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
This form of radicalism manifested in a violent, racist skinhead youth culture, which celebrated street fighting and attacks on asylum seekers and immigrants.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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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“Skinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skinhead. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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