skinhead n.
1. a shaven head or one who has one.
![]() | Indianapolis Star 12 Dec. pt 4 22/6: Skinhead — Boy with a G.I. haircut. | in|
![]() | (con. 1960s) Wanderers 126: His skinhead and Baldie jacket were more obvious than an American flag. | |
![]() | Monster (1994) 253: That summer we all got skinheads. We’d pile into my car [...] bald-headed with dark shades on. | |
![]() | Guardian Rev. 11 June 15: I fookin’ hate having hair. I prefer a skinhead. | |
![]() | Young Team 7: Always hus a skinhead n a wee devious look aboot him. |
2. (orig. US) a bald person; thus as a nickname.
![]() | Angels are Painted Fair 77: A man in overalls [...] sat at the desk writing in a sort of ledger. He was a skinhead, thin and cadaverous. | |
![]() | (con. 1950) Band of Brothers 68: Skinhead couldn’t see any enemy activity from his whirlybird. | |
![]() | Chosen Few (1966) 36: Sergeant Major Jackson to you, skinhead. [Ibid.] 73: Couldn’t be th’ skinheads are gettin’ hip to you, could it? | |
![]() | ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiv 4/4: egg shell blonde: Bald headed person, sometmes [sic] skinhead. | |
![]() | Flame: a Life on the Game 133: I went to bed with a dead butch Scottish bloke called Stewart, a rough, hard skinhead. | |
![]() | Lucky You 127: What we got here’s one brain-dead skinhead. | |
![]() | Panopticon (2013) 193: A young guy is serving, he’s cute. Skinhead. Looks like a monk. |
3. attrib. use of sense 2.
![]() | All Bull 240: In the long open carriage was a group of very young [...] ‘skinhead’ soldiers. | |
![]() | Train to Hell 124: Approaching him down the corridor was a stocky figure [...] with an evil face, topped by a skinhead crop. |
4. (also skins, skinz) a member of a teen youth cult whose main identifying features are bald heads, large ‘bother’ boots, turned-up jeans and braces and who provide much of the ‘heavy’ element of the modern neo-Nazi movements; also attrib.
![]() | Daily Mirror 3 Sept. 12/1: A group of teenagers [...] wear tight and rather short jeans, collarless T-shirts, exposed braces, big steel-capped boots and hair erased almost to their scalps. The lack of hair is what gives them their generic names [...] crop-heads, skin-heads or peanuts. | |
![]() | Time 8 June 37: The skinheads are lineal descendants of the rockers—with an added touch of mindless savagery. | |
![]() | All Bull 241: What is a ‘skinhead’ but the most alienated and rancorous product of our current state of industrial opportunism compounded by induced unemployment? | |
![]() | Down and Out 85: One of the skinheads jumped up in his seat, causing his braces to fly in the air. | |
![]() | Skin Tight 120: A local skinhead gang went into a slam-dancing frenzy. | |
![]() | Breakfast on Pluto 72: The night with its Clockwork Orange gangs and skinheads and hippy dealers falling in and out of Ward’s pub. | |
![]() | NZEJ 13 35: skins or skinz n.'Skinheads' - Neo-NAZ! / White Supremacist gang members with shaven heads. | ‘Boob Jargon’ in|
![]() | Jake’s Long Shadow 147: ‘They were head-kicker shits.’ ‘What you mean skinheads who hate niggers?’. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 190: skins [...] 2. Shaven-headed neo-Nazis, short for skinheads. | |
![]() | Call of the Weird (2006) 169: It’s a pretty wacky gathering when a skinhead with a swastika tattoo on his head is one of the more presentable attendees. | |
![]() | Decent Ride 49: That dark, near skinheid cut oan that low forehead. |
In compounds
(N.Z. prison) a neck tattoo that display’s the gang insignia.
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 168/1: skinhead collar n. a skinhead’s gang patch, in the form of a tattoo. |