Definition of "headbanger" [headbanger]

• Slang A fan of heavy metal music: "an arena full of headbangers holding their lighters aloft” ( Christopher John Farley). (noun)

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• "In part I object to such terminology on the personal grounds that I don't like being called a headbanger for liking grammar schools and moaning about absence of Tory support for NI's grammar schools."
• "If he grew up in your small town he would be known as headbanger, but John Martyn was more that that he was a gift of one."
• "The "headbanger" arrived in a police van and wasted little time in earning his nickname."