This is is the closest one here. it comes from hardcore in the early 80's. the word it self was first coined from Vinnie Stigma, March Of Skin Heads. FSU them selfs started it. NYC had the bands that started haveing breakdowns which people moshed to. it has nothing to do with shoveing people around like the metal kids think.
by Rob February 17, 2005
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An awesome way to express yourself at a metal/hardrock/punk gig/concert/show. You don't really see this happening in concerts for Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, etc, but more towards Avenged Sevenfold, Napalm Death, etc. You get the drift. People mistake moshing as jumping/pogoing, but that is not the case. You can get your ass kicked in moshing, but the hell with that, danger is part of the fun! You got people all around you to bounce back on your feet from. THATS moshing; letting the music control your body as the audience move like energetic molecules of a gas, bouncing off each other.
An awesome way to express yourself at a metal/hardrock/punk gig/concert/show. You don't really see this happening in concerts for Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, etc, but more towards Avenged Sevenfold, Napalm Death, etc. You get the drift. People mistake moshing as jumping/pogoing, but that is not the case. You can get your ass kicked in moshing, but the hell with that, danger is part of the fun! You got people all around you to bounce back on your feet from. THATS moshing; letting the music control your body as the audience move like energetic molecules of a gas, bouncing off each other.
"Damn, we moshed so hard to the concert extra crew members had to stand out to hold the barriers in place!"
by spungey November 16, 2007
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Adj: To describe an emotional, or triumphant occurance in ones life.
Noun: Someone who exhibits being a great man/woman, or a J-crew member (ie: J-parks, T-lockwood, Drew Halpern)
Verb:Using car markers to write obscenitites, and draw obscene pictures on cars of a friend, and or a d-bag
Noun: Someone who exhibits being a great man/woman, or a J-crew member (ie: J-parks, T-lockwood, Drew Halpern)
Verb:Using car markers to write obscenitites, and draw obscene pictures on cars of a friend, and or a d-bag
Adj: When Drew Halpern called out Joe mont.. that was sooo MOSH!
-The snake around your neck is soooo moshhh!!.
Noun: J-parks here.. just wanted to say I'm mosh.
Verb: Yo, we Moshed up his car so badddd.
-The snake around your neck is soooo moshhh!!.
Noun: J-parks here.. just wanted to say I'm mosh.
Verb: Yo, we Moshed up his car so badddd.
by Moshman12 August 20, 2010
Get the Mosh mug.jumping around like a maniac in a "pit" to rock music, shoving people around and stuff, and beating the shit out of scallies
by insitiona December 8, 2003
Get the mosh mug.a large group of people usually containing an obnoxious, fat guy with a mohawk and a BAC of 1.5%, a few rude kids, one or two jack asses, some hardcore chicks, some helpless guy who got shoved in by his friends, and a handful of ridiculously overenthusiastic middle schoolers. Also, y'know, actual fans of the music trying to listen and dance and have a good time, but getting beaten and bruised and pushed around by the aforementioned shit-heads.
Moshes can be fun at a good punk show, or a hard core show, when appreciating is not the highest priority, but having fun and beating people you don't like without the consequences of an assault charge are. But anywhere else, there should be a circle pit, and a less packed area to groove in.
Moshes can be fun at a good punk show, or a hard core show, when appreciating is not the highest priority, but having fun and beating people you don't like without the consequences of an assault charge are. But anywhere else, there should be a circle pit, and a less packed area to groove in.
ex 1:
taylor: "fuck this shit! you're not supposed to mosh at ska shows! where's the circlepit?"
karli: "oh they'll start one, and we'll still get pummeled"
taylor: "STUPID FUCKEN HARDCORE KIDS!"
ex 2:
nick: "dude, check out my battle wounds from that sweet mosh"
conor: "yea man! i've got a black eye! fuck was that music pump me up!"
taylor: "fuck this shit! you're not supposed to mosh at ska shows! where's the circlepit?"
karli: "oh they'll start one, and we'll still get pummeled"
taylor: "STUPID FUCKEN HARDCORE KIDS!"
ex 2:
nick: "dude, check out my battle wounds from that sweet mosh"
conor: "yea man! i've got a black eye! fuck was that music pump me up!"
by taylrrina March 24, 2008
Get the mosh mug.A "March Up", often used in ye olde England in a sentence "March Up The Town" ...meaning to either protest en masse against the political system, or, later to engage in hooliganism of many kinds....got appropriated and Patois-ized into "MASH up de town" by the Caribbean blacks who were emigrating and traveling back and forth to the UK, and that's how "gon' mash up de town" got into the lexicon of reggae/ska lyrics...and they pretty much used it in the same way, protest, gang action, general going out en masse with a posse to effect some sort of group "excitement" (Brixton, Islington, etc) which might also include some dancing...the proto punks of the UK as we already know (like the Clash etc.) were huge fans of reggae and ska, and appropriated it in it's shortened form "mash", in some cases maintaining it's meaning of political or social protest, but that bled over into the new mass-dancing and energy of the punk-rock movement.. but the English meets Cockney meets West Indian meets Jamaican accent certainly sounds way more like "mosh", and that's the way the Cali and NY punk kids in their respective language-challenged ears heard and re-appropriated it for further redefining as a way to describe THEIR en-masse energetic actions, specifically, in the Pit (remember when it used to be SLAM DANCING? I didn't think so). But in doing so, historically-revised it into something never or rarely thought of as BLACK in origin (indeed, I bet most of the denizens of the world of the modern American MOSH PIT would be loathe to incorporate little if any Africanism into their mostly white pursuit)... especially white-supremacist Skinhead types, though they might, in their ass-backwards way of "white-i-fying" everything, hearken back to the days of yore and say that the blacks who came to England were the one's who really modified it's original meaning. I wonder if in their urge to be ultra-correct, in a WHITE way, would start calling a Mosh pit a MARCH PIT! Unfortunately, most interesting slang that has been kicking around and morphing for centuries, comes to a sudden and boring, dumb-ass demise at the hands of young, white Americans.
"We's gonna march up the town, TOMMY"
"Mi g'wan mash up de town wit me mon WINSTON"
"DEREK...it's a mash up...oi!"
"isn't that JASON in the mosh pit?"
"Mi g'wan mash up de town wit me mon WINSTON"
"DEREK...it's a mash up...oi!"
"isn't that JASON in the mosh pit?"
by jesco September 1, 2008
Get the Mosh mug.A group of people pushing each other around, punching and shoving for no apparent reason. Often done at heavy metal concerts.
by matt November 13, 2004
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