HEAVY METAL MUSIC

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery

Synonyms:

heavy metal; heavy metal music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("heavy metal music" is a kind of...):

rock; rock'n'roll; rock-and-roll; rock 'n' roll; rock and roll; rock music (a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western)

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