'mosh' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used as a verb meaning to dance in a wild and energetic manner, often in a crowd at a concert or other music event. Example: The music was so loud and the crowd was so hyped up that everyone started to mosh, jumping and thrashing around in unison.
Unlike the mosh pit etiquette evidenced at System of a Down's show (which, it might be said, included a fair proportion of older, more veteran festival heads), plenty of attendees fell victim to the crush, falling to the muddy floor and left unaided, trampled by their fellow revelers.
They demanded the festival be shut down for safety reasons.In this section An uneasy friendship Mosh no more Reprints Related topics China Beijing ShanghaiThe police may have been right to worry.
He would not, however, need to look up the word mosh: a common rendering in Chinese is kuangwu, meaning "wild dancing", which sounds suspicious enough.
In this section An uneasy friendship Mosh no more Reprints Related topics International relations Asia-Pacific politics Government and politics Political policy AsiaAt a more practical level, the exercise provides a shop-window for China's Type 054A guided-missile frigate, which it would like to sell to the Russians.
Richard Edelman, the boss of Edelman, a public-relations firm, describes the media and advertising business as a "mosh pit".
The obvious risk is that Mr Bush will sacrifice some of the aura of the presidency by plunging into the mosh pit with the Bostonian.
Mr Xi was probably not thinking of Suffocated, and those who mosh to its angry sounds, when he said that artists should "take the initiative to breathe with the people".
And yet despite the dog collar round her neck and her pleasure of being singled out in the mosh pit "by a shooting star of saliva from Marilyn Manson's lips" – in the words of the poet Simon Armitage – she was in many ways an old-fashioned soul.
All year round, genres and their associated subcultures, from post-punk to hip hop, attract young Chinese and expats to venues scattered around town, including the mosh-pits of Mao Livehouse, in a central hutong district that has been called Beijing's Brooklyn (think Williamsburg or Bushwick), or the more experimental XP, which is tucked behind a roasted chestnut stand.
He told DIYmag.com: "There's a difference between a mosh-pit and just groping somebody".
Pity! Birt shimmies back to the mosh-pit A curious sight greeted those at Joan Armatrading's Royal Albert Hall gig: the former director-general of the BBC, John Birt, up on his feet and dancing to the veteran singer's music.
