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heavy-metal umlaut

heavy-metal umlaut is the alternative form of heavy metal umlaut.

Meaning of heavy metal umlaut

Noun

heavy metal umlaut (plural heavy metal umlauts)

  1. An umlaut (“diacritical mark”) over a letter in the name of a heavy metal band, added gratuitously for mere stylistic effect.
    • Blue Öyster Cult
      Too clever by half to be heavy-metallers (though not too clever to deploy a Heavy Metal umlaut), the Cult's list of listenable songs goes nowhere near eleven.2007, Mark Ellingham, editor, The Rough Guide Book of Playlists, →ISBN, page 32

Forms of heavy-metal umlaut

pluralheavy-metal umlauts

Questions about heavy-metal umlaut

What is heavy-metal umlaut the alternative form of?
Heavy-metal umlaut is the alternative form of heavy metal umlaut.

Words near heavy-metal umlaut in the dictionary

  1. heavy-heartedness
  2. heavy-hitter
  3. heavy-hitters
  4. heavy-lidded
  5. heavy-lifting
  6. heavy-metal umlaut
  7. heavy-metal umlauts
  8. heavy-set
  9. heavy-tailed
  10. heavy-water
  11. heavy-water reactor

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