单词 | headbanger |
释义 | headbangern. 1. A person (esp. an infant) who shakes or bangs his or her head violently, esp. as a repetitive act. Cf. headbanging n. 1. ΚΠ 1936 Titusville (Pa.) Herald 3 Jan. 4/3 The head wobbler or head banger is very much the same kind of a baby. 1973 D. Lester in J. H. Hollis Developmental Deficiencies II. 96/2 Authors of case reports feel that the older the head banger, the more likely he is to be psychotic. 1989 H. C. Johnson in F. J. Turner Child Parapsychol. iv. 88 At about one year, he became a head banger.., but he stopped doing this after a few months. 2005 PMLA 120 534/2 In one situation, with lights, noises, or harassing distractions, a person can become a ‘head banger’, while in another environment, that same person can extrapolate the intricacies of Michel Foucault 's The Birth of the Clinic. 2. British colloquial. a. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A person regarded as crazy or mentally unstable, esp. one whose behaviour is violent or unpredictable. Cf. headcase n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xi. 95 He's a mental heid. A right heid-banger. Boy's daft. 1981 D. Morris in Guardian 25 Sept. 22/7 Surely it is not beyond their [sc. the police's] wit to go in and sort out the few leaders, the tiny criminal element of head-bangers, possibly just one nutter. 2007 C. MacFarlane Real Gorbals Story (2009) i. 13 A drinking shop that catered primarily for winos, bampots, headbangers and generally the element of society that most respectable people went out of their way to avoid. b. Politics. A person with uncompromising or extreme political views; a hardliner, esp. (depreciative) one regarded as fanatical or mentally unstable. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person fantastical1589 fantastic1598 earwig brain1599 extravagant1627 fanatic1644 energumen1660 original1675 toy-pate1702 gig1777 quiz1780 quoz?1780 rum touch1800 crotcheteer1815 pistol1828 eccentric1832 case1833 originalist1835 cure1856 crotchet-monger1874 curiosity1874 crank1881 crackpot1883 faddist1883 schwärmer1884 hard case1892 finger1899 mad hatter1905 nut1908 numéro1924 screwball1933 wack1938 fruitcake1942 odd bod1942 oddball1943 ghoster1953 raver1959 kook1960 flake1968 woo-woo1972 zonky1972 wacko1977 headbanger1981 society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music > of specific types of pop hard rocker1942 skiffler1948 rock fan1959 rocker1963 discomaniac1966 Deadhead1971 punk rocker1972 punker1973 punkette1974 Krautrocker1976 punk1976 punk fan1976 punkster1976 new waver1977 soulie1978 post-punk1979 New Romantic1980 headbanger1981 skanker1983 grebo1987 old schooler1990 shoegazer1991 technoid1992 thrasher1992 gabba1995 1981 New Statesman 13 Nov. 5/2 Those calling for restraint describe the hardliners as ‘headbangers’. 1989 Observer 19 Feb. 13/7 In the European Parliament, they sit alone with a few Spanish and Danish head-bangers, while the main conservative grouping excludes them. 1998 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 2/5 Tory policy on Europe was being determined by the ‘headbangers’ he had surrounded himself with in the shadow cabinet. 2001 A. Campbell Diary 5 June in Blair Years (2007) 536 On to Rugby, bit of a scene with a few UKIP headbangers. 3. A person who engages in headbanging to (esp. heavy metal or rock) music; a fan of heavy metal or hard rock music. Cf. headbanging n. 3. ΚΠ 1977 New Musical Express 4 June 50/2 If Murphy had set out to be a virtuoso guitar picker, or even a Quo style headbanger band, his mental sang froid wouldn't matter a damn. 1979 Melody Maker 31 Mar. 18/4 Their fans are long-haired headbangers. 1986 Telegraph (Brisbane) 21 Aug. 22/1 Brisbane headbangers will have a chance to scream and wave their fists when Dio plays at Festival Hall. 2003 D. Gaines Misfit's Manifesto iii. 46 They might as well have been headbangers at an Iron Maiden show. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1936 |
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