| 单词 |
mosh |
| 释义 |
▪ I. mosh
dial. var. mush n.1 and v.2
▪ II. mosh, v.2 slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.)|mɒʃ|
[Origin obscure: perh. f. mash v.1; see also mush v.2]
1. intr. To dance in a violent manner involving jumping up and down and deliberately hitting other dancers, esp. at a rock concert.
1987U.S. News & World Rep. 7 Sept. 51/3 On the floor beside the stage, the boys begin to ‘mosh’, slamming shoulder to shoulder with abandon. 1991Rolling Stone 28 Nov. 11/2 Half-naked performance artists moshed to tribal percussions. 1993Chicago Tribune 13 Apr. i. 14/3 It wasn't even clear if the crowd noticed the band was changing songs—they pretty much moshed obliviously through the slow ones and the fast ones, and even between songs. 1994Club Scene (Brisbane) 4 May 18/1 When people are at shows and they're having a good-ass time jumpin' around or moshin' it up, they're losing their minds.
2. The vb.-stem used attrib. and in Comb., esp. in mosh-pit n., the area in front of the stage where such dancing usually takes place.
1990Sounds 10 Nov. 51/3 The security..helped the more diminutive among the crowd on to the stage if they had problems getting free of the moshpit so that they could take a dive. 1991Washington City Paper 6 Sept. 38/4 Take, for example, seminal thrashers Exodus, whose mosh anthem ‘Toxic Waltz’ goes something like this. 1993Independent 29 July 17/1 The band appeared on time at 9.30 and faced a mosh-pit of rucking, shirtless fans, extending three-quarters of the way down the Roseland's dance floor. 1994Sunday Times (S. Afr.) 28 Aug. (Metro section) 1/1 After midnight, when people are not sober, we play mosh music and people go wild. Everyone slams and bumps into each other. It is madness.
So ˈmoshing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈmosher n.
1987Music Making July 6 Soviet scientists last month reported that ‘heavy metal listeners are affected by the psycho-physiological mechanisms of addiction’. According to The Guardian (so it must be true), their laboratory tests on moshin' Russkies showed ‘a worsening of memory, loss of attention, a fall in reading speeds, and an increase in aggressiveness and stubbornness’. 1990Rolling Stone 22 Mar. 26/2 Like a recent gig that erupted into a near riot when overeager moshers careened out of the slam pit, felling bystanders. 1991Twenty Twenty Spring 73/3 All funk-metal groups agree that one form of self-abuse is still legitimate: moshing, stage-diving and other forms of lemming-like behaviour are de rigeur [sic]. 1992Option July–Aug. 113/1 They've recorded an album that appeals to the moshers, the headbangers and the grinders alike. 1996Cape Times 14 May (Health & Beauty section) 1/4 Victims of moshing are increasingly seeking damages for injuries. |
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