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heavy metal umlauts

heavy metal umlauts is the plural 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

Questions about heavy metal umlauts

What is heavy metal umlauts the plural of?
Heavy metal umlauts is the plural of heavy metal umlaut.

Words near heavy metal umlauts in the dictionary

  1. heavy man
  2. heavy marching order
  3. heavy men
  4. heavy metal
  5. heavy metal umlaut
  6. heavy metal umlauts
  7. heavy metally
  8. heavy metals
  9. heavy mob
  10. heavy mobs
  11. heavy petting

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