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  • noun Alternative spelling of mosh pit.

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Examples

  • I was an underage teen sneaking into grownup punk clubs, high on moshpit fumes (and, truth be told, lots else).

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Their pacey debut, Sink or Swim (2007), broke the tattooed foursome out of New Jersey, while their last album, The '59 Sound (2008), bust them out of the punk tent at festivals and into the wider consciousness, redeploying as it did the emotional energies of the moshpit into classic songwriting.

    The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang 2010

  • A group of strangers bopped around the remains of a fatal car accident; I sang and can-canned my legs, like I did as we passed a moshpit of people thrashing themselves together into a mush.

    Ballspenden 2010

  • PLAINFIELD TODAY: Join the Courier moshpit! skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Join the Courier moshpit! Dan 2007

  • If you feel like making a comment on the story, why not check out PT's post of last week on how to use the Courier's new StoryChat feature (see "Join the Courier moshpit") and go back to the story and make a comment for all the world to see.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Dan 2007

  • If you feel like making a comment on the story, why not check out PT's post of last week on how to use the Courier's new StoryChat feature (see "Join the Courier moshpit") and go back to the story and make a comment for all the world to see.

    Courier whacks Plainfield again? Dan 2007

  • I thought they were better on the balls-out bubblegum moshpit numbers.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Obama the rockstar gets set to jump in the moshpit.

    Beat 360° 10/23/08 2008

  • The moshpit was that small, and there were that few people.

    WHAT? fantasyecho 2006

  • I thought they were better on the balls-out bubblegum moshpit numbers.

    Nowhere Town: Act ONE Scene VI Hal Duncan 2006

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