Definition of headbanger
: a musician who performs hard rock; also : a fan of hard rock
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In Beavis and Butt-Head, his two teen headbanger couch potatoes sniffed glue, played with live grenades, deep-fried rodents at their fast-food job—and embodied stultified TV-watching America.
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1977
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