Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A fan of heavy metal music: "an arena full of headbangers holding their lighters aloft” ( Christopher John Farley).
Wiktionary
- n. One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.
- n. by extension one who enjoys heavy metal rock music, to which this sort of dance is usually performed.
- n. A mad or eccentric person.
Examples
“In part I object to such terminology on the personal grounds that I don't like being called a headbanger for liking grammar schools and moaning about absence of Tory support for NI's grammar schools.”
“If he grew up in your small town he would be known as headbanger, but John Martyn was more that that he was a gift of one.”
“The "headbanger" arrived in a police van and wasted little time in earning his nickname.”
“It came moments before she managed the impressive 'headbanger' spin just five weeks into the contest, a move dreaded by even professional skaters.”
“The former Emmerdale star revealed that she was terrified about the "headbanger", which involves her partner Daniel Whiston swinging her up and down from her ankles.”
“You drive around in a hot rod with flame decals and fight off enemies with your guitar tricks and recruit as your soldiers "headbanger" miners who crack rocks with their own heads.”
“headbanger" who has played with numerous bands including the Finnish power metal group”
“((Auman)) is the latest group worth hearing in the local headbanger scene.”
“In defiance of local mores, he listened to KISS and Metallica "I was a total headbanger" or sat in theaters watching "Friday the 13th" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
“This is the kind of incident that could only happen at Thistle – it was at around the same time that midfielder and headbanger Chic Charnley was "approached" by a gent wielding a samurai sword during training.”
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Lists
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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Australian
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Gabba Gabba Word: some Ramones words
blitzkrieg, pulsating, revved, beat, brat, punk, runt, wanna, boyfriend, chainsaw, massacre, sniff and 84 more...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Diction...
dead-cat bounce, golden handcuffs, headhunt, avatar, convergence, dot-commer, killer app, lurk, anandamide, barista, frankenfood, longneck and 17 more...
Tweets
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kalayzich headbanger is not legal to play in scrabbble but headbanging is Oct 23, 2012
chained_bear I can't figure out why it doesn't cite any references or sources! Oct 17, 2007
reesetee Ha! It "is not uncommon for some to receive headaches from headbanging." Oct 17, 2007
seanahan Can it be more annoying that the Wikipedia Entry for fish stamps? Oct 17, 2007
john The Wikipedia entry on headbanging is absolutely hilarious. It lists 18 headbanging styles ("the bjorkman"), which can be combined with seven different "stances". Oct 17, 2007