skin

1. noun, slang One's life; one's survival or self-preservation. Thanks for bringing me some extra cash—you really saved my skin, there!

2. noun, slang A cigarette paper. Do you have any spare skins? I forgot to pick up some at the gas station.

3. noun, slang Nude flesh, especially the breasts or thighs. Come on, toots, lift up your skirt and show us some skin!

4. noun, informal In video games, an alternate appearance for a character within the game. The game is free, so the developers make their money by selling various skins for a few dollars a pop.

5. adjective, slang Of, depicting, or related to nudity or pornography. They sell skin magazine that are kept on a rack hidden behind black paper. The movie theater used to show skin flicks and exploitation films back in the '70s.

6. verb, dated slang To cheat or swindle (someone). The con man skinned them for nearly $10,000.

skinhead

1. noun, slang A neo-Nazi or other white supremacist who indicates association with such a group by having a bald or shaved head. The man reported to police that he had been beaten by a group of skinheads outside of his apartment in the early hours of the morning.

2. adjective, slang Of or indicating such a person or group. After yet another skinhead rally in the state this weekend, activists are calling on officials to deny permits to hate groups.

skin

1. n. a dollar bill. This ticket cost me a couple of skins—and it’s not worth it. You got a skin for the tollbooth?

2. and skinhead n. someone with a shaved or bald head. (Some such persons may also engage in political violence.) Who’s the skinhead with the earrings?

3. tv. to cheat or overcharge someone. The guy who sold me this car really skinned me.

skinhead

verb

See skin

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References in periodicals archive

| SKINHEAD gangs comprised the youngest age group, but caused the greatest problems particularly when Blues and Villa were at home.

ANARCHY BULL RING IN THE; How tribal tensions between bikers, skinheads and punks culminated in notorious Brum riot

It was the era of the Doctor Marten-wearing, reggaeloving skinhead. The sight of a group of shavenheaded lads wearing immaculately polished cherry red or shiny black 'docs' was enough to make the average New Newcastle.

Aggro boys call the Toon in the early 1970s

The skinheads still congregated outside, but police instructed those behind the barricades to remove them.

Rare film of race riots aftermath; 1972 footage features interviews with toxteth residents

Specifically, this research explores the daily interaction of gay skinheads and examines how they negotiate being gay and a skinhead.

Gay skinheads: negotiating a gay identity in a culture of traditional masculinity

It's been a really interesting journey from the little skinhead I was to the photographer I am now.

Under the skin: subculture photographer Gavin Watson talks Dr. Martens' new skinhead-inspired collection

The father's barrister, Douglas Allen, added: "He admitted he had made threats to have 200 skinheads standing behind him, but he says that he did not mean it and it was said in a fit of pique."

CHILD SEIZED AFTER VIOLENT DAD'S RANT

France: France s far-right National Front kicked off its traditional "Joan of Arc" May Day march Sunday with a new leader at the head and under orders banning skinhead haircuts and jackboots.

French far-right holds skinhead-free march

Given the judicial system's ineffectiveness, Álvaro Paredes, self-identified "red skinhead," that is a member of the main opposition group to the neo-Nazi skinheads, decided to form the Brigadas Antifascistas.

ECUADOR: NAZI GROUPS A DISTURBING PRESENCE IN COUNTRY

Check out Life After Hate, the monthly blog that Christian Picciolini started with other reformed skinheads. Go to

Out of his skin: a former skinhead credits music for leading him out of the movement

<![CDATA[ Some 10,000 people in Dresden formed a human chain to block neo-Nazis and skinheads from marching in eastern Germany on Saturday.]]>

Dresden Residents Oppose Neo-Nazis, Form Human Chain

Way back in the late 1960s, the original skinheads were not racist, violent idiots like the 1980s skinheads.

WHAT YOU'RE LISTENING TO

Now I don't know about you, but if I suddenly found myself surrounded by group of chairleg-wielding skinheads wanting to separate me from my teeth then there's only one thing I'd be able to smell and, believe me, you wouldn't want to put that in a bottle.

Sorry, Eau de Violence smells bad

At the same time, police say two young skinheads revealed plans to kill Obama, after a murder spree that they plotted, targeting precisely 88 African-Americans.

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