Meaning of skinhead | Babel Free

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1. Someone with a shaved head.
2. A member of a subculture that arose among working-class youth in late 1960s England or its diaspora, defined by close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing, and often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.

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“Their rules haven't changed: Skinheads are very young, mostly between the ages of 13 and 18, and they come⟳ from strictly working class backgrounds. They wear⟳ short‐ankled denims, T‐shirts, suspenders and heavy boots known as Bovverboots (Botherboots), and their hair is shorn to an eighth of an inch all over their skulls. They dance⟳ the Reggae, a West Indian shuffle, and they drink⟳ Coca Cola and they whip up riots at soccer games.”

“By the end⟳ of the show⟳, fights would break⟳ out all over the place⟳: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.”

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