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1. 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
   - bootboys

1. A young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations

Type of: bully, hooligan, ned [UK], roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, scally [UK], tough, yob [Brit], yobbo [Brit], yobo [Brit], youth subculture

Encyclopedia: Skinheads