Meanings
plural heavy metal umlauts · alternative heavy-metal umlaut
- 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 32Synonyms: metal umlaut, röck döts
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn umlaut (“diacritical mark”) over a letter in the name of a heavy metal band, added gratuitously for mere stylistic effect.
Translations
Dutch metalumlaut
- metalumlautumlaut in the name of a heavy metal band
Esperanto metalroka umlaŭto
- metalroka umlaŭtoumlaut in the name of a heavy metal band
Polish heavymetalowy umlaut
- heavymetalowy umlautumlaut in the name of a heavy metal band
Swedish heavy metal-prickar
- heavy metal-prickarumlaut in the name of a heavy metal band
Cite this entry
heavy metal umlaut. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heavy%20metal%20umlaut
“heavy metal umlaut.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heavy%20metal%20umlaut. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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