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heavy metal umlaut (plural heavy metal umlauts)
- An umlaut (“diacritical mark”) over a letter in the name of a heavy metal band, added gratuitously for mere stylistic effect.
2007, Mark Ellingham, editor, The Rough Guide Book of Playlists, →ISBN, page 32: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.
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