heavy metal
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heavy metal music
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Noun (2)
- a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead)Type of metallic element, alloy
- loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagerySynonyms: heavy metal musicType of rock 'n' roll, rock'n'rollKinds folk metal
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Heavy metal
Military, large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns.
From the entry Heavy.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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big iron heavy metal
<jargon> (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur". [Jargon File]
(2000-11-09)
The Jargon File
heavy metal n.
[Cambridge] Syn. big iron.