one who fretwanks.
"Are you going to jam night on Wednesday?"
"Nah, it's full of fretwankers."
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To play guitar fast with technical skill, but no feeling
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The act of playing the guitar in a way that is gratuitously self-indulgent, yet enjoyable and compelling to watch. Often includes facial movements to indicate the difficulty or sexuality of a solo.
Jeepers, have you seen Steve Vai's "Tender Surrender" video? It's practically spadgetastic!
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(v)"To play the air guitar."
(Taken from the movement of the left hand up and down the imaginary frets of a non-existent electric guitar)
"You can always recognize the spotty teenage Status Quo herberts, by their inability to refrain from 'fretwanking' the second "Caroline" is played on the juke-box."
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