Noun: skinhead
| Singular | skinhead |
| Plural | skinheads |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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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. [2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth:]
Nouns inflected like skinhead
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kenH-
3. Proto-Germanic *skinþąder.
4. Middle English skyn
5. English skin
6. substratebor.?
7. Proto-Indo-European *kap-?
8. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
9. Proto-Indo-European *káput
10. Proto-Germanic *haubudą
11. Old English hēafod
12. Middle English heed
13. English head
14. English skinhead
15. From skin + head.
Verbs referencing "skinhead"
Russian Nouns
скинхед, Hungarian Nouns
szkinhed.