kerrang

1. The sound of a power chord on an electric guitar.

present singular third person kerrangs · participle present kerranging · participle past kerranged · past kerranged

1. informalintransitiveTo play a power chord on an electric guitar.

   Meanwhile, with Brain Stew, Green Day do some serious kerranging on their electric guitars, which they have mixed in with Godzilla vocals (!), to provide a tune of migraine-inducing proportions.

   1998, Film Review: issues 23-24

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   One of the best moments came during the flashpot blasts in "Closer to the Heart," when the whole crowd came alight, sixteen thousand faces hanging open as Alex, in his fringed monk's robe, kerranged a D-major chord[…]

   2004, Dave Bidini, For Those About to Rock: A Road Map to Being in a Band

   […] he stretched his cordless guitar's reach to the limit (and possibly into the realm of apocrypha) by leaving the building mid-solo, taking a cab to a local radio station, and kerranging all the way up to its fiftieth-floor studio.

   2010, Phil Sutcliffe, AC/DC: High-Voltage Rock 'n' Roll: The Ultimate Illustrated History, page 77