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headbanging

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English

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A person headbanging and playing air guitar.

Etymology

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From head +‎ banging.

Noun

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headbanging (uncountable)

  1. A type of dance associated with hard rock or heavy metal music, in which the head is shaken violently in time with music.

See also

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Verb

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headbanging

  1. present participle and gerund of headbang

Adjective

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headbanging (not comparable)

  1. Extremely frustrating.
    • 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6:
      Any work of art/propaganda is surely permitted to lie. But Stone's overreachings in JFK are head-banging. How did he get this thing past the Script Dept.?
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