röck döts

See also: rock dots

English

WOTD – 28 June 2012, 28 June 2013, 28 June 2014, 28 June 2015

Alternative forms

Etymology

The words rock (“musical style”) + dots (“umlaut”), with umlauts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɒk ˌdɒts/, (humorous) /ˈɹøːk ˌdøːts/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

röck döts pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, humorous) Synonym of heavy metal umlaut.
    • 2005 December 2, Michael Dwyer, “The full Mötley”, in The Age‎[1]:
      In the world of heavy metal, the umlaut - otherwise known as röck döts - is the ultimate illustration of Spinal Tap's dictum that there's a fine line between clever and stupid.
    • 2006, Björn Türoque, To Air Is Human: One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist‎[2], Riverhead Books:
      I imagine I'd be seeing a lot of metal tonight, so why not go for an obscure eighties punk song? Plus, Hüsker Dü = dual röck döts!
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:röck döts.
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