Headbanger

Quick meaning: Headbanger is a noun meaning One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (by extension) One who enjoys heavy metal (rock) music, to which this sort of dance is usually performed.
2. A violently deranged, extreme or fanatical person; a nutcase.
3. A silly or eccentric person.
4. (UK) A political hardliner, especially an obstructive one.
5. A kind of chin-up or pull-up exercise where the head is kept in line with the bar.
6. (chiefly Northern Ireland) A person who engages in street violence, especially in support of a political group.

Example Sentences

Even the Brexit headbangers of the European Research Group rolled over like pussycats.

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.

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.

We also had a heavy crew of home-grown headbangers who were likely to get involved in any IRA - UVF battles. It would not have taken much to tip Scotland into the serial sectarian violence that was rife in Belfast and the surrounding areas.

Word Forms

• headbangers

Synonyms for headbanger

Depending on context, synonyms include metalhead, metaller.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include headbutter, baghead, buckethead, skanker, bopper, handbagger.

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