skinheads
skin hedz
- n 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
- n a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations
- An Afghan interpreter died after being beaten by a group of skinheads on 15 April, The Associated Press reported.
- The skinheads also target non-Slav minorities from the Caucasus, whom Russians disparagingly refer to as "blacks," and Jews.
- A group of skinheads in California had a dream, but it was decidedly different from the one imagined by Martin Luther King.