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metalhead

metalhead

7 7.4
A person who loves heavy metal music and goes to its concerts
  • noun
  • /ˈmɛtəlˌhɛd/
  • Slang
translation icon : metalero
  • The local café is popular among metalheads, especially on weekends when they host live music events.
  • metalhead goth

Examples

  • Metalheads, riot girls and punks, what's up and welcome to the finals of The Battle of Bands: Warped Tour Edition.

  • " Metalheads are stubborn and tend to buy CDs," he says.

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  • Every metalhead should have a copy.

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  • Spot the metalhead with the all-black wardrobe, anyone...

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  • I was an angry metalhead girl in college, so I didn't care about having an endless supply of cute outfits.

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  • If you're a metalhead, you surely have heard at least one band perform a song that was inspired by Lovecraft.

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  • He was a serious metalhead and introduced me to the likes of Maiden and Sabbath.

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  • She is a total metalhead, listening to everything from Sepultura to Katatonia and everything in between.

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  • Why do you think some metalheads are so reluctant to embrace punk and grunge?

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  • At the concert, I met a fellow metalhead who shared my love for classic heavy metal bands.

How Devoted

fanatic
8 4.3
superfan
  • Informal
4 4.1
metalhead
  • Slang
7 7.4
fan
1.0
listener
228 1.0

Surface Forms

metalhead singular
metalheads plural

Morphology

metalhead = metal + head (semi-transparent) = metal + head

The components 'metal' and '-head' are clear, but understanding '-head' as 'enthusiast/fan' (an informal suffix) may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

The word metalhead joins metal (short for 'heavy metal' music) and head (used in English to mean 'a fan' or someone very into something). So a metalhead is a person who loves heavy metal music and often belongs to the fan group around that music.