Definition of "metalhead" [metalhead]

• Slang A fan of heavy metal music: "metalheads being hoisted aloft and hurled across the arena floor” ( Darrell Laurant). (noun)

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• "I don't want to be recognized by the world as a "metalhead" because people throw that term around very loosely."
• "This is the kind of metalhead Anvil's Steve "Lips" Kudlow is and will always be."
• "Through the leadership of Princess Leia Organa (the female twin of Jedi hero Luke Skywalker) and the support of a ragtag crew of misfits namely: Captain Hans Solo, the hairy ape-like Chewbacca and metalhead droids R2D2 and C3PO; the Alliance were successful in creating anarchy throughout the galaxy in their bid to end the reign of Dark Lord Sidious and the Empire."