mosh
/mɒʃ
/verb [no object] informal
Dance to rock music in a violent manner involving jumping up and down and deliberately colliding with other dancers: the boys began to mosh, slamming shoulder to shoulder with abandon...
- It's a rare pleasure to see a crowd that isn't moshing or pogoing, but actually dancing.
- I like to dance so I find hip-hop better music to dance to than punk; I can only mosh and jump around for so long.
- Zack jumped in and started moshing with everyone else.
Origin
1980s: perhaps from mash or mush1.