SKINHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skinhead mean? 

• SKINHEAD (noun)
  The noun SKINHEAD has 2 senses:

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

2. a person whose head is bald or shaved

  Familiarity information: SKINHEAD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKINHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

skin; skinhead

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person whose head is bald or shaved

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

baldhead; baldpate; baldy; skin; skinhead

Hypernyms ("skinhead" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)