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1. To 'slide' on a skateboard, often in a fashion which damages the surface used to slide.

2. To skate, snowboard, surf or BMX aggressively.

3. A form of longboard surfing which breaks the wave being 'shredded'
Where shall we shred? Tim totally shredded that last run. "SHRED IT!" - vocalised as an encouragement.
Shred by foxydragon November 18, 2006
vi.

1. music: to play distorted electric lead guitar in a manner which is at once so extremely cogent and rapid that listener experiences the sensation that the production of the sound should be impossible or nearly impossible.

2. surfing: performing a series of cutbacks requiring seemingly impossible adeptness.

3. going every-which-way at once
Garcia was SHREDING so hard in the middle of Shakedown, i thought my head would explode.

compare: ripping
shred by mainframe October 31, 2003
to abuse a skatepark in the good way
(skate on it till your board snaps)
dude1 = yo check this park.

dude2 = alrite lets shred
shred by skate 4 lyf September 15, 2005
A guitar playing style or technique that was abandoned in the late 1980's.

The board of directors at MTV decided that learning to "shred", as it were, took too much time, patience, and work to do correctly, and thus was banned in early 1992, in favor of more lucrative cookie cutter style bands, with a higher turnover rate.
MTV Exec 1: "Aw come on. Shred is cool."

MTV Exec 2: "Yes, but look here. In the time it takes to teach one guy how to shred well, we can raise and kill off four three-chord bands, OR seventeen boy-bands!"

MTV Exec 1: "Well holy shit on rye, Steve! Who needs shred anyways?"
shred by The.Sam June 11, 2004
1. The art of Technically and rhythmatically hammering out amazing and lightning-fast solos on a guitar.
2. To play so amazingly fast on guitar you almost destroy it's strings.

"Shredding" as it is known is limited to the "True" Musicians and as such is not known to shitty Bands/Musicians of lesser talent, IE. Nu-Metal does not, can not and will not ever have shredding present in it's down-tuned watered down style of crap called "music".
Herman "SHRED" Li is one of the fastest guitar shreddars on the planet! \m/
shred by Demoniac March 30, 2003
1. inf verb: to extract the audio track from a video (usually featuring an overblown, over-rated rock guitarist) and replace it with perfectly synchronized, very well played rubbish. The joyful result of this painstaking process renders the featured musician looking even more totally fucking risible than they were already.

2. noun: A parody video clip likely to be removed from YouTube
Video by StSanders: Yngwie Malmstrom Shreds.
shred by Tibenham January 11, 2009