skinhead
noun
skin·head ˈskin-ˌhed 
1
: a person whose hair is cut very short
2
: a usually white male belonging to any of various sometimes violent youth gangs whose members have close-shaven hair and often espouse white-supremacist beliefs
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Using a framing device set in 1991 London that reminds us of the ways in which Nazism still permeates the culture, Parker tells the story of Anna Marshall (Harriet Walter), an older woman who captures a skinhead intruder in her home. 
Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022 Myatt was a key figure in the English far right and was heavily involved in the militant skinhead organization Combat 18 in the 1980s and 1990s. Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022 Just as the white nationalist skinhead movements of the 1970s through the 1990s came to dominate radical spaces and attract disaffected youths, the same thing is happening now with white nationalists in digital spaces. Patrick Smith, NBC News, 17 May 2022 Yet Stefanov’s patient eye looks beyond that veneer of violent masculinity and finds through Tsetso, a skinhead hooligan with a Swastika on his chest and a single father, a wide range of nuance that give surprising depth to their human experience. Emiliano Granada, Variety, 28 Mar. 2022 Scutt also is responsible for the costumes, which include the purposefully bland beiges of Jesus’s followers, the skinhead aesthetic of Tommy Sherlock’s Pilate and the applause-worthy golden gown donned by Paul Louis Lessard’s Herod. Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022 The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 36 active hate groups in Pennsylvania — most of them with skinhead, neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideologies, according to its data. Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022 His character on Banshee is Kurt Bunker, a police deputy who was once a neo-nazi skinhead in another life. Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Jan. 2022 The police report identified him as a leader in the Hammerskins, a racist skinhead gang. Chris Joyner, ajc, 3 Dec. 2021 See More
Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022 Myatt was a key figure in the English far right and was heavily involved in the militant skinhead organization Combat 18 in the 1980s and 1990s. Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022 Just as the white nationalist skinhead movements of the 1970s through the 1990s came to dominate radical spaces and attract disaffected youths, the same thing is happening now with white nationalists in digital spaces. Patrick Smith, NBC News, 17 May 2022 Yet Stefanov’s patient eye looks beyond that veneer of violent masculinity and finds through Tsetso, a skinhead hooligan with a Swastika on his chest and a single father, a wide range of nuance that give surprising depth to their human experience. Emiliano Granada, Variety, 28 Mar. 2022 Scutt also is responsible for the costumes, which include the purposefully bland beiges of Jesus’s followers, the skinhead aesthetic of Tommy Sherlock’s Pilate and the applause-worthy golden gown donned by Paul Louis Lessard’s Herod. Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022 The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 36 active hate groups in Pennsylvania — most of them with skinhead, neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideologies, according to its data. Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022 His character on Banshee is Kurt Bunker, a police deputy who was once a neo-nazi skinhead in another life. Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Jan. 2022 The police report identified him as a leader in the Hammerskins, a racist skinhead gang. Chris Joyner, ajc, 3 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1943, in the meaning defined at sense 1