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Skinhead vs Suedehead - What's the difference?

skinhead | suedehead |

As nouns the difference between skinhead and suedehead

is that skinhead is someone with a shaved head while suedehead is a member of an offshoot of the British skinhead subculture, originating in the 1970s and characterised by longer hair and more formal clothing than the skinheads.

skinhead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone with a shaved head.
  • Member of the skinhead subculture arising in late 1960s England or its diaspora, often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.

    • Synonyms

    * baldie * boot boy * bovver boy * skin (short for skinhead) * slaphead

    suedehead

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of an offshoot of the British skinhead subculture, originating in the 1970s and characterised by longer hair and more formal clothing than the skinheads.
  • *1982 , Paul Barker, The Other Britain: A New Society Collection
  • *:Since then, he's been a suedehead and a soul-boy. "I used to go down the discos, wear pegs and American bowling shirts."
  • *2001 , Chris Brown, Bovver
  • *:But Austins was always the clothes shop for the suedeheads .