Definition of mosh pit
: an area in front of a stage where very physical and rough dancing takes place at a rock concert
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The band's wild, heavy punk and metal music invokes a lot of intensity, including crowd surfers, mosh pits and stage dives.
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Gone are the Dodger days of bankruptcy and underachievement, a mosh pit of dysfunctionality.
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By the time his Velvet Underground T-shirt followed it, a mosh pit was already churning.
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Many punk shows around town advertise themselves as all-ages, but few could boast of toddlers dancing around in the mosh pit—a regular sight at these Saturday concerts.
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This is a bunch of friends and peers in the art scene throwing ourselves in the mosh pit together and executing actual projects in our respective mediums.
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Zazie Beetz hops out of a yellow cab and right into the mosh pit of late-afternoon Manhattan traffic.
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His fury turned the N.F.L. — traditionally a unifying force — into a mosh pit of competing agendas and emotions, pitting owners, players and league officials mostly against the president, at least initially, and longtime fans against the league.
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Somewhere in the middle of a mosh pit at midcourt, Dominic Green, the unlikeliest of heroes, exchanged embraces with just about everyone who ran onto the Alaska Airlines Arena court.
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First Known Use of mosh pit
1988
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: an area in front of a stage at a rock concert where people dance in a wild and rough way
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