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SKINHEADS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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 work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism
Synonyms:
bootboys; skinheads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("skinheads" is a kind of...):
youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)
Meronyms (members of "skinheads"):
skin; skinhead (a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent)
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