SKINHEADS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skinheads mean? 

• SKINHEADS (noun)
  The noun SKINHEADS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SKINHEADS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKINHEADS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bootboys; skinheads

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

youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)

Meronyms (members of "skinheads"):

skin; skinhead (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)