headbanger

headbanger
n
a.
a devotee of heavy metal rock music who expresses excitement by frenzied shaking and even literal banging of the head in time to the music. The practice and term originated in the early 1970s.
b.
a person who behaves in a relentlessly frenzied or dangerous way. This usage, deriving from the first sense of the term, usually expresses a certain shocked admiration. It has been current among
British schoolchildren and students since the late 1970s, and is rapidly becoming 'respectable' by its use in the press and elsewhere by adults, typically with reference to political extremists.
► 'I'd like to meet her father; he sounds like a right headbanger.' (Contestant on Blind Date, TV show, Sep-tember 1989)
c.
a madman, psychotic, headcase

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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