Explore Skinhead through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bully or tough. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Skinhead meaning
- Someone with a shaved head.
- 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.
Using Skinhead
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone with a shaved head. | 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.
- Useful related words include: bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian.
- In the example corpus, skinhead often appears in combinations such as: racist skinhead, the skinhead, black skinhead.
Context around Skinhead
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Skinhead
- In this selection, "skinhead" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, racist, term, melbourne, combo, bovver and pack stand out and add context to how "skinhead" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a female skinhead who he and a racist skinhead group who. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "skinhead" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with skinhead
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cohen was recast as Skinhead, one of Biff's cohorts. (10 words)
As opposed to the skinhead white supremacists who would never suggest such a thing. (14 words)
I love "Flashing Lights" and "Black Skinhead," and Kanye's antics have ruined them for me. (16 words)
This type of drastic transformation is, of course, hard to predict, and it can be triggered by seemingly insignificant events (the tipping point for one skinhead was when his black co-worker tossed him half of his submarine sandwich when he had no lunch). (44 words)
Now in our mid-20s we weren’t too keen on putting on the skinhead bovver boots again but a good button-down shirt is a timeless classic, as was the music being covered by The Specials and other Ska-influenced bands. (42 words)
Following that is a circular whittle with a small knife that cuts off the tougher top of the petals and reduces the artichoke to about half its original size, more pine cone than thistle, more skinhead than elegant still-life. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
The mainstream media started using the term skinhead in reports of racist violence (regardless of whether the perpetrator was actually a skinhead); this has played a large role in skewing public perceptions about the subculture.
But then, his mind game worked, and Malcolm revealed that Tate was being held by another skinhead.
Admitting to "losing himself" at the time, the actor, who played racist skinhead Combo in Shane Meadow's hit 2006 drama, said he used alcohol to cope with the intense pressure of the role.
Now in our mid-20s we weren’t too keen on putting on the skinhead bovver boots again but a good button-down shirt is a timeless classic, as was the music being covered by The Specials and other Ska-influenced bands.
Romper Stomper (Stan): There’s barely a wasted shot in Geoffrey Wright’s 1992 classic about the self-immolation of a violent, racist Melbourne skinhead pack led by Russell Crowe’s fearsome Hando.
Following that is a circular whittle with a small knife that cuts off the tougher top of the petals and reduces the artichoke to about half its original size, more pine cone than thistle, more skinhead than elegant still-life.
Others preferred the more aggressive and angry punk and skinhead cultures which by the mid-1980s had almost merged in to one.
Picciolini had also penned a memoir in 2015, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead, which has since been re-titled and updated.
Southern Poverty Law Center, there are 284 active black nationalist groups in the U.S. There are a combined 410 groups labeled as white nationalist, racist skinhead, neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate or Klu Klux Klan.
The gritty drama is inspired by a true story and follows the life of Bryon Widner – a former member of a racist skinhead group who attempts to rejoin society after becoming a father.
This type of drastic transformation is, of course, hard to predict, and it can be triggered by seemingly insignificant events (the tipping point for one skinhead was when his black co-worker tossed him half of his submarine sandwich when he had no lunch).
Tony went on to have two children with a female skinhead who he met through the movement.
As opposed to the skinhead white supremacists who would never suggest such a thing.
For a guy who wants to wear his hair long, and a guy who wants to be a skinhead.
I love "Flashing Lights" and "Black Skinhead," and Kanye's antics have ruined them for me.
In place of the militarized and brutish skinhead look, there is the “fashy haircut” and suits that Spencer prefers.
Now this crazy woman was probably with the racist skinhead bunch so thought she could get away with everything because of who she was and who she knew.
Cohen was recast as Skinhead, one of Biff's cohorts.
Jason King star Peter Wyngarde recorded a self-titled album in 1970 which contained the song "Hippie and the Skinhead" about Billy the "queer sexy hippie" "trolling the Dilly".
Most of these revivalist skinheads reacted to the commercialism of punk by adopting a look that was in line with the original 1969 skinhead style.
Common combinations with skinhead
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: