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n.

1. A metal band from Sweden whose music features many dizzingly complex polyrhythms and hemiolas characteristic of free jazz and African drumming.

2. A metal group whose rhythmic concepts tend to go right over the heads of most metal fans, leading them to pigeonhole the band with such descriptions as "toughest band I've ever heard," thus raping them of the credibility they deserve.

adj.

1. Yiddish for "crazy."
Meshuggah is meshuggah!
meshuggah by Sommy July 9, 2004
progressive metal band from Sweden.

features of their music are;

-polymeters
-polyrhythms
-free-form solos similar to modern jazz
-extremely brutal sound, almost binary in dynamic nature.
"meshuggah are innovating a whole new genre of music that will be copied for many years"
meshuggah by cyrus beaumont August 18, 2004
Crazy; nuts; psycho; a few sandwiches short of a picnic. From the Yiddish.
Sky-diving? You'd have to be meshuggah.
meshuggah by cornholio October 9, 2003

Meshugener 

Meshugener (pronounced as meh∙shoog'∙en∙er ) is the Yiddish word for crazy person.
Meshugener by Cousin Chaim May 24, 2012

mishuginah

Jewish word for a crazy person, situation, or thing.
"You see that guy over there?"
"You mean the one with the hand puppet?"
"Yeah, the one talking jibberish to the hand puppet."
"The one about to fall into the manhole?
"Yeah, him. He's a mishuginah."
mishuginah by pastorius October 8, 2006

Israeli Meshugah 

Hebrew for "crazy israelis"
should be said as -is rail ee mesh oo gah-
every israeli that comes to america.
Loren was bleaching the toilets at midnight and forgot to tell us in the morning, israeli meshugah!
Israeli Meshugah by Madeline B February 12, 2006