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  • adjective music Resembling thrash.

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Examples

  • Can Pain-Lin SHUT UP now instead of dragging innocent military men & women into her personal beef with Letterman – Because my family consisting of military men & women and veterans of both the Iraq & Vietnam wars DO NOT support this dimwit and her kind of thrashy hateful politics!!!

    Palin accepts apology but says time for change 2009

  • Some of what I've cleaned up has been obviously kind of thrashy.

    suicide's easy. what happened to the revolution? matociquala 2010

  • The 2.0-liter direct-injection turbo four (240 horsepower, 251 pound-feet of torque) is certainly adequate to hustle the Evoque along the highway, but the character of the engine (a Ford EcoBoost in British drag) can get pretty thrashy and stressed when you hammer it.

    Evoque: A Range Rover for a Smaller Era Dan Neil 2011

  • Dan Neil for The Wall Street Journal The 2.0-liter direct-injection turbo four (240 horsepower, 251 pound-feet of torque) is certainly adequate to hustle the Evoque along the highway, but the character of the engine (a Ford EcoBoost in British drag) can get pretty thrashy and stressed when you hammer it.

    A Range Rover for a Smaller Era 2011

  • One of the tracks on the playlist was the Dead Kennedys' Too Drunk to Fuck, originally a thrashy ode to a mispent evening, as covered by the band Nouvelle Vague in an ironic easy-listening style.

    Dead Kennedys cover pulled from lager campaign over binge-drinking fears 2011

  • The band's new disc is heavy without being particularly thrashy, rhythmically complicated without being math-y.

    Album review: Kylesa, "Spiral Shadow" Allison Stewart 2010

  • Also, the Hyundai shares with its larger sibling Sonata a tendency to get a bit thrashy at certain parts of the tachometer.

    Hyundai Takes a Bold Stand in the Compact Race Dan Neil 2011

  • I got past the barn door -- basically, I thrashed like a thrashy thing until I was past it -- and then was so pumped that I just rainbowed up to the top, because my forearms would no longer hold my weight.

    The Search For Mount Snuffleupagus ladegard 2009

  • The band's new disc is heavy without being particularly thrashy, rhythmically complicated without being math-y.

    CD review of 'Spiral Shadow' by Kylesa Post 2010

  • One of the tracks on the playlist was the Dead Kennedys' Too Drunk to Fuck, originally a thrashy ode to a mispent evening, as covered by the band Nouvelle Vague in an ironic easy-listening style.

    Dead Kennedys cover pulled from lager campaign over binge-drinking fears 2011

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