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headbanging

noun, adj — 3 senses

headbanging

noun

Etymology From head + banging.

1

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

2

Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences The motion of striking one's head against a surface, a common stereotypy.

headbanging

adj

Etymology From head + banging.

1

Extremely frustrating.

  • 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.?1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6:

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