What is Slam Dancing?
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Slam dancing started when punk rock music started. It is the original form of "moshing". Back in the mid 70's and in the 80's punk rockers slammed danced. There wasn't any hardcore violence involved. Ask anyone who actually lived through the era of punk rock and they will tell you the truth about slam dancing. "Moshing" is a new term for slam dancing but isn't slam dancing at all. Slam dancing basically consisted of jumpin around and not really doing any actual dance moves. It wasn't purposly violent dancing.
"Hey look at those scenester kids "moshing" and thinkin they are slam dancing."
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Form of dancing brought about by early punk and thrash bands, now mainly used in the presence of modern hardcore and metalcore. Unlike a general mosh pit, slam dancing actually shows signs of enjoying the music and having a brain. By using kicks and punches, the dance is a way to let off violent energy without actually hurting anybody.
There's too many nu-metal kids grinding on each other's bodies for us to go slam dancing.
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A form of "dancing" used by pre-pubescent
At the Dream Theater/Opeth/3/Between the Buried and Me concert yesterday, the mosh pit started when some asswipe's slam dancing connected with a Dream Theater fan. The true fans around beat the slam dancers down mercilessly.
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What hardcore and some emo kids do when they go to metal shows. It consists of randomly swinging their arms and kicking in random directions. The point of these people is so that true metalheads have a reason to be pissed off and therefore mosh harder. A new game has arisen in the metal scene called "Who owns slam dancers the hardest."
"Those kids are slam dancing. Lets stomp them."
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term used by heroin users for injecting via needle thus slamming it all at once and getting the greatest slam dance of a rush.
Bill chews his. Max snorts his. I slam dance mine. Aww, look at him slam dancing that brown rock.
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a queer form of moshing in which little emo kids participate in because they are scared of getting their ass whooped in a true pit, consists of flailing ur arms around making urself look stupid
"i hate emo kids, them and their gay slam dancing"
"yeah, idiots. lets go jump in the pit and get fucked up."
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A type of action done by kids who are too weak to get into a real mosh pit so they must pretend fight so they won't get knocked on their asses.
"Look at thos wannabes slam dancing"
"Yea too bad there's not a real mosh pit around"