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call-and-response

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to a style of singing in which the melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by another or others.

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Examples

  • She had a call-and-response catchphrase/greeting with home-shoppers who would call in: "Quack, quack!"

    QVC's Jeanne Bice Dead at 71 2011

  • She had a call-and-response catchphrase/greeting with home-shoppers who would call in: "Quack, quack!"

    QVC's Jeanne Bice Dead at 71 2011

  • Other writers appear, but I'm not here for Ken Wark's call-and-response Occupy manifesto so long as we're not getting married I'm not repeating after you or Jarrett Kobek's Mohammed Atta bio, noble as they both are.

    Paul McRandle: Westway Ho! Stewart Home at Performa 11 Paul McRandle 2011

  • "The Giants are in our blood," said Don Walsky, 65 years old, of Dunellen, N.J., who led a booming call-and-response with the crowd around him.

    Giants: 'In Our Blood' Jennifer Maloney 2012

  • Other writers appear, but I'm not here for Ken Wark's call-and-response Occupy manifesto so long as we're not getting married I'm not repeating after you or Jarrett Kobek's Mohammed Atta bio, noble as they both are.

    Paul McRandle: Westway Ho! Stewart Home at Performa 11 Paul McRandle 2011

  • He lands hammer blows of bass on Flash Back as a funked-up melody zigzags overhead; he cycles through the jabbing riff of Hover Traps in one sound after another, like a call-and-response among friends.

    Rustie: Glass Swords – review 2011

  • During a spaghetti dinner that Romney was hosting at the Tilton School in Tilton, N.H., protestors used the "human microphone," a call-and-response tactic originally designed to get around New York's ban on use of amplification equipment without a permit.

    Occupy Wall Street Supporters 'Mic Check' Mitt Romney Over Bain Capital's Job Cuts (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

  • She had a call-and-response catchphrase/greeting with home-shoppers who would call in: "Quack, quack!"

    QVC's Jeanne Bice Dead at 71 2011

  • During a spaghetti dinner that Romney was hosting at the Tilton School in Tilton, N.H., protestors used the "human microphone," a call-and-response tactic originally designed to get around New York's ban on use of amplification equipment without a permit.

    Occupy Wall Street Supporters 'Mic Check' Mitt Romney Over Bain Capital's Job Cuts (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

  • Other writers appear, but I'm not here for Ken Wark's call-and-response Occupy manifesto so long as we're not getting married I'm not repeating after you or Jarrett Kobek's Mohammed Atta bio, noble as they both are.

    Paul McRandle: Westway Ho! Stewart Home at Performa 11 Paul McRandle 2011

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