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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)