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headbanger

noun

Etymology

From head + banger.

  1. derived from *bʰen-✻ — “to beat, hit, injure”
  2. derived from *bangōną✻ — “to beat, pound”
  3. derived from banga — “to pound, hammer”
  4. derived from *bangian✻
  5. inherited from *bangen✻
  6. suffixed as banger — “bang + er”
  7. compounded as headbanger — “head + banger”

Definitions

  1. One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.

  2. One who enjoys heavy metal (rock) music, to which this sort of dance is usually performed.

  3. A violently deranged, extreme or fanatical person

    A violently deranged, extreme or fanatical person; a nutcase.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A silly or eccentric person.

    2. A political hardliner, especially an obstructive one.

      • We would therefore paralyse ourselves for no good reason other than the propagandistic appeasement of the Daily Mail, the Sun, my noble friend Lord Hamilton and a few other headbangers in the Commons on the Conservative side.
      • Corbyn's lack of ambition would turn out to be one of his great selling points. He was the man at the margin: a headbanger for most and a man of principles for a few.
      • Even the Brexit headbangers of the European Research Group rolled over like pussycats.

    3. A person who engages in street violence, especially in support of a political group.

    4. A kind of chin-up or pull-up exercise where the head is kept in line with the bar.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA