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alt-metal

alt-metal is the clipping of alternative metal.

Meaning of alternative metal

Noun

alternative metal (uncountable)

  1. A loose collection of styles of modern metal music influenced by alternative rock, including many bands in the nu metal, industrial metal, grunge, and gothic metal styles.

Origin of alt-metal

From alt- + metal.

Questions about alt-metal

What is alt-metal the clipping of?
Alt-metal is the clipping of alternative metal.

Words near alt-metal in the dictionary

  1. alt-left
  2. alt-light
  3. alt-lights
  4. alt-lit
  5. alt-lite
  6. alt-metal
  7. alt-middle
  8. alt-monthlies
  9. alt-monthly
  10. alt-pop
  11. alt-right

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: alt-metal (page history and authors); alternative metal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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