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meshuggenah

Yiddish word meaning:

1) noun: crazy person

2) adj: crazy, insane, deranged, batshit

Related to: meshugas
1) Only a meshuggenah would actually watch InfoWars.

2) The president is a grade-A, meshuggenah asshole who quenches his thirst with only the finest Russian hooker urine that money can buy.
by Dr. Dreidel, M.D June 8, 2020
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meshuggah

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!
by Sommy July 9, 2004
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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"
by cyrus beaumont August 18, 2004
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Crazy; nuts; psycho; a few sandwiches short of a picnic. From the Yiddish.
Sky-diving? You'd have to be meshuggah.
by cornholio October 9, 2003
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a tech metal band who is known for their use of polyrythms and polymetrics. their music is harsh and often sounds inhuman and machine-like.
well known songs include "new millenium cyanide christ" and "future breed machine"
by niggasense September 16, 2005
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meshuggenehs

one who is insane; crazy: phycho
damn meshuggenehs always messin up my car
by Visionary March 13, 2005
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meshuggener

1. Crazy; insane; mad.
2. Crazy person; a lunatic.

From Hebrew via Yiddish meshugener, from meshuge (crazy) + -er (masculine singular person suffix)

Often pronounced without final -r, influenced by both Yiddish gender inflection and non-rhotic American dialectal pronunciation.
I was sitting there eating my breakfast when this meshuggener burst in the front door of the restaurant and tried to take us all hostage.
by bluegrassfan February 1, 2005
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