English

Noun

out-chorus ‎(plural out-choruses)

1. (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,

     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 […]

   • 2001, Joshua Berrett and Louis G. Bourgois III, The Musical World of J. J. Johnson, Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Chapter 7, p. 189,

     […] the treatment of Monk's classic blues from 1947, "Misterioso," includes a torrent of notes from Adderley's cornet in the opening solo chorus matched by a hot, intense solo by Johnson before the out chorus.

Synonym

• head-out

Verb

out-chorus ‎(third-person singular simple present out-choruses, present participle out-chorusing or out-chorussing, simple past and past participle out-chorused or out-chorussed)

1. (of a group of singers) To 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,

     […] the audience right loyally insisted on having "God save the King," and far out-chorussed the professional singers on the stage.