skinheads

IPA: skˈɪnhɛdz

noun

  • 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 working shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against asians and football hooliganism
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Examples of "skinheads" in Sentences

  • The skinheads must be on holiday.
  • Still, the skinheads manage to escape.
  • It was never only by, or for skinheads.
  • They didn't get along with the skinheads.
  • Some skinheads who are gay do not fetishize the skinhead image.
  • I agree that having a large group of trained and experienced skinheads is a bad idea.
  • Then there's alt. skinheads, which is more about music and clothes than blacks and Jews.
  • When altercations occurred between white and minority students, the skinheads were always around to help the Caucasian.
  • These so-called skinheads consider themselves hero-warriors -- part of a national liberation movement to rid Russia of immigrants.
  • For the cops, migrant workers are an additional source of income; for racist "skinheads" - a trophy; for simple citizens - a cheap source of labour.
  • These individuals, whom we have identified as skinheads, racists, hooligans or homophobes, all have the same way of embodying their extremism: their tattoos.
  • It followed 12-year-old Shaun, played by Thomas Turgoose, and his acceptance into a group of skinheads, which is eventually split by a growing racist influence.
  • Witnesses claimed the riot was retaliation for a clash the previous evening, when a group of young men described as skinheads allegedly attacked three Romani teenagers, one of whom was severely beaten.
  • The leader of the skinheads was a lot braver than Derek driving the white Chevy truck — the green Ford plowed through small fir trees and knocked over thick bushes and more saplings in its eagerness to get at Dale.
  • By the end of the decade, these "hard" mods were known as skinheads and their lives and fashion had strayed further away from the middle-class fascination with the latest trends, settling for an image made up of practical styles that suited their employment - steel-toed boots, straight-legged denim jeans, shirts and suspenders.

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