Etymology

metalhead

M3E1T1A1L1H4E1A1D2

Today it means: Someone who listens to or is a fan of heavy metal music. Full definition →

English metal ← Middle English metal ← Old French meta
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The story

  1. Latinmetallum
  2. Old Frenchmeta
  3. Middle Englishmetal
  4. Englishmetal
  5. English todaymetalhead

From metal + -head.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.