headbangernoun

• 1

  One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.

• 2

  One who enjoys heavy metal (rock) music, to which this sort of dance is usually performed.

• 3

  A violently deranged, extreme or fanatical person; a nutcase.

• 4

  A silly or eccentric person.

• 5

  A political hardliner, especially an obstructive one.

  • We would therefore paralyse ourselves for no good reason other than the propagandistic appeasement of the Daily Mail, the Sun, my noble friend Lord Hamilton and a few other headbangers in the Commons on the Conservative side.
  • Corbyn's lack of ambition would turn out to be one of his great selling points. He was the man at the margin: a headbanger for most and a man of principles for a few.
• 6

  A person who engages in street violence, especially in support of a political group.

  • We also had a heavy crew of home-grown headbangers who were likely to get involved in any IRA - UVF battles. It would not have taken much to tip Scotland into the serial sectarian violence that was rife in Belfast and the surrounding areas.
  • John had a nasty side to him – he wanted to see the handiwork, if y'know what I mean. That sorta thing didn't interest me. He had a lot of headbangers around him but that was his style. He wanted to outdo the UDA – he hated them with a passion.
• 7

  A kind of chin-up or pull-up exercise where the head is kept in line with the bar.