⇨ suedehead; suedenoun a member of a late 1960s youth fashion and gang movement, characterised by a close-cropped scalp and smart utilitarian wear, associated with football hooliganism, racist violence and neo-Nazism. This lexicographic development matches exactly the SKINHEAD fashion's further growth; 'suede' is the velvety surface of leather and thus describes the soft nap on a previously shaven head UK, 1982