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
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The white power movement has a long history here, going back to the days when the Ku Klux Klan could march freely through Orange County and skinheads rocked out to punk in Huntington Beach.
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Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
The film also links the crime to extremist violence and skinhead culture.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
Louis is such a tough customer that Frank would sooner be assigned to the unit’s biggest skinhead — at least that guy is too far gone to hate people anymore.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026
The series finds an instructive case in one particular pastor, whose trajectory as a neo-Nazi skinhead turned vehement anti-racist makes for a compelling tale.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
The film also links the crime to extremist violence and skinhead culture.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
Louis is such a tough customer that Frank would sooner be assigned to the unit’s biggest skinhead — at least that guy is too far gone to hate people anymore.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026
The series finds an instructive case in one particular pastor, whose trajectory as a neo-Nazi skinhead turned vehement anti-racist makes for a compelling tale.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Skinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skinhead. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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