Meanings
- uncountableThe practices or beliefs of skinheads.
Never mind about the publishers, weren't we doing the same thing, trying to make a bob or two out of somebody else's life, while making nice liberal arguments about wanting to tell the truth about skinheadism?
1972, Susie Daniel, Pat Doyle, Pete McGuire, The Paint House: words from an East End gang2 more examples
Some of this confusion or misinformation is minor, except that it obscures the symbiotic nature of English and American punk and therefore the origins of skinheadism in America where the style finally became implanted in the seventies[…]
1993, Jack B. Moore, Skinheads shaved for battle: a cultural history of American skinheads, page 52For him, his claim to authentic skinheadism is the primacy of his skinhead allegiance, unlike fashion skins, who only exist within the limits of gay subculture, their skinhead identity being secondary to their sexuality.
2005, Ken Gelder, The subcultures reader, page 373
Origin
Cite this entry
skinheadism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skinheadism
“skinheadism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skinheadism. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skinheadism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skinheadism.
Source: skinheadism on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.