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Skinhead vs. Skin — What's the Difference?

Skinhead vs. Skin — What's the Difference?

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Skinhead

A skinhead is a member of a subculture which originated among working class youths in London, England, in the 1960s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the late 1970s. Motivated by social alienation and working class solidarity, skinheads (often shortened to "skins" in the UK) are defined by their close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing such as Dr.

Skin

Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have different developmental origin, structure and chemical composition. The adjective cutaneous means "of the skin" (from Latin cutis 'skin').

Skinhead

A person with a shaven head or very close cropped hair, especially one who associates with a group of similar people.

Skin

The thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal
A flap of skin
I use body lotion to keep my skin supple

Skinhead

Such a person who associates with a group that commits hooliganism or street violence or that holds white supremacist or anti-immigrant views.
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Skin

The peel or outer layer of certain fruits or vegetables
Potatoes roasted in their skins

Skinhead

Someone with a shaved head.

Skin

A customized graphic user interface for an application or operating system.

Skinhead

A member of a subculture that arose among working-class youth in late 1960s England or its diaspora, defined by close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing, and often incorrectly associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.
Fresh cut

Skin

A skinhead
We were surrounded by skins with tattoos and braces

Skinhead

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

Skin

(especially in jazz) a drum or drum head.

Skin

Relating to or denoting pornographic literature or films
The skin trade

Skin

A card game in which each player has one card which they bet will not be the first to be matched by a card dealt from the pack.

Skin

A unit into which an Aboriginal people is divided, typically on the basis of descent, each skin being associated with a totemic bird, animal, or insect.

Skin

Remove the skin from (an animal or a fruit or vegetable)
Scald and skin the tomatoes
She skinned the pig and salted the carcass

Skin

Take money from or swindle (someone)
I ain't no dummy, and I know when I'm being skinned

Skin

(of a wound) form new skin
The hole in his skull skinned over

Skin

(of a player) take the ball past (a defender) with ease
Kanchelskis would have skinned him

Skin

Make a cannabis cigarette
We had a few beers and then we skinned up

Skin

The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.

Skin

An animal pelt, especially the comparatively pliable pelt of a small or young animal
A tent made of goat skins.

Skin

A usually thin, closely adhering outer layer
The skin of a peach.
A sausage skin.
The skin of an aircraft.

Skin

A thin, close-fitting, usually elastic garment, especially a shirt, worn by scuba divers and others who engage in water sports for protection against scrapes and other superficial injuries.

Skin

A container for liquids that is made of animal skin.

Skin

(Music) A drumhead.

Skin

One of a pair of strips of fabric or other material temporarily applied to the undersides of a pair of skis to provide traction while ascending slopes.

Skin

(Computers) A design layout for the interface of a program such as a media player or instant messaging application that a user can select and often customize in order to alter the default appearance.

Skin

(Informal) One's life or physical survival
They lied to save their skins.

Skin

To remove skin from
Skinned and gutted the rabbit.

Skin

To bruise, cut, or injure the skin or surface of
She skinned her knee.

Skin

To remove (an outer covering); peel off
Skin off the thin bark.

Skin

To cover with a skin or a similar layer
Skin the framework of a canoe.

Skin

(Slang) To fleece; swindle.

Skin

To become covered with skin or a similar layer
In January the pond skins over with ice.

Skin

To pass with little room to spare
We barely skinned by.

Skin

Of, relating to, or depicting pornography
Skin magazines.

Skin

(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.

Skin

(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.

Skin

(countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.

Skin

(countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.

Skin

A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.

Skin

An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.

Skin

Rolling paper for cigarettes.
Pass me a skin, mate.

Skin

Clipping of skinhead

Skin

(Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.

Skin

(slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
Let me see a bit of skin.

Skin

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.

Skin

(nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

Skin

(nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.

Skin

(aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.

Skin

A drink of whisky served hot.

Skin

A purse.

Skin

(transitive) To injure the skin of.
He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.

Skin

(transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.

Skin

(colloquial) To high five.

Skin

To apply a skin to (a computer program).
Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?

Skin

To use tricks to go past a defender.

Skin

(intransitive) To become covered with skin.
A wound eventually skins over.

Skin

(transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.

Skin

To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

Skin

To strip of money or property; to cheat.

Skin

The external membranous integument of an animal.

Skin

The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.

Skin

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.

Skin

The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

Skin

That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

Skin

To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.

Skin

To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Skin

To strip of money or property; to cheat.

Skin

To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.

Skin

To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

Skin

A natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch;
Your skin is the largest organ of your body

Skin

The tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)

Skin

An outer surface (usually thin);
The skin of an airplane

Skin

Body covering of a living animal

Skin

A person's skin regarded as their life;
He tried to save his skin

Skin

The rind of a fruit or vegetable

Skin

A bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the skin of an animal

Skin

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Skin

Bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of;
The boy skinned his knee when he fell

Skin

Remove the bark of a tree

Skin

Strip the skin off;
Pare apples

Skin

Strike against an object;
She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken

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