out-chorus

== English == === Etymology === From out- +‎ chorus. === Noun === out-chorus (plural out-choruses) (jazz) The return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance 1991, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., "Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry" in Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.), Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin’, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, p. 149, [1] I also hear the trombone's held-notes in the out-chorus (B7) as evocative "shouts" that Signify black religious shouting and its counterpart expression in secular life—calls, cries, and hollers […] ==== Synonyms ==== head-out === Verb === out-chorus (third-person singular simple present out-choruses or (rare) out-chorusses, present participle out-chorusing or (rare) out-chorussing, simple past and past participle out-chorused or (rare) out-chorussed) (transitive) To sing in chorus better, longer or louder than. 1831, Thomas Thomson, "The London Drama, Regent's Park, London, Monday, Jan. 10th, 1831, in The Edinburgh Literary Journal; or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh, p. 51, [3] […] the audience right loyally insisted on having "God save the King," and far out-chorussed the professional singers on the stage.