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  • noun slang a diehard enthusiast of heavy metal music.

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Examples

  • Kinda makes sense, I guess, since the word hesher might not translate overseas; however, as Chase pointed out, releasing it as Rebel in the States would definitely change the whole vibe of the film.

    Hesher Still Called Hesher | The Movie Blog 2010

  • The genre spent a decade consciously glamorizing and aggressively experiencing faceless sex and copious drug use; it will be interesting to see whether the hesher casualties now start piling up.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • The genre spent a decade consciously glamorizing and aggressively experiencing faceless sex and copious drug use; it will be interesting to see whether the hesher casualties now start piling up.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • The genre spent a decade consciously glamorizing and aggressively experiencing faceless sex and copious drug use; it will be interesting to see whether the hesher casualties now start piling up.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • Tony Shadid has a marvelously complex piece about what Greil Marcus would call the lipstick traces of the U.S. occupation of Iraq: the Baghdad tattoo artist who modifies American styles; the hesher who improbably dreams of becoming a Texas "country boy"; the Iraqi soldier who now wears the kneepads and thigh holster of his American counterparts.

    I Hate The Way You Love | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • I am a nerdy, white, thirty-something hesher, and I loved “Thriller”.

    Happy 50th Birthday, Michael Jackson! | EW.com 2008

  • The genre spent a decade consciously glamorizing and aggressively experiencing faceless sex and copious drug use; it will be interesting to see whether the hesher casualties now start piling up.

    Five Interesting Corpses Chuck Klosterman 2006

  • We started hanging out in the Safeway parking lot on thursday nights, car doors thrown open, stereos blasting, the dudes in hesher drag - bandanas, mesh, moustaches, camaro mullets - and the dolls in anklets and heels and halter-tops.

    Archive 2006-07-01 esther 2006

  • We started hanging out in the Safeway parking lot on thursday nights, car doors thrown open, stereos blasting, the dudes in hesher drag - bandanas, mesh, moustaches, camaro mullets - and the dolls in anklets and heels and halter-tops.

    ... esther 2006

  • The genre spent a decade consciously glamorizing and aggressively experiencing faceless sex and copious drug use; it will be interesting to see whether the hesher casualties now start piling up.

    Five Interesting Corpses Chuck Klosterman 2006

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