encore

plural encores

1. A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.

   To play an encore.

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   Can I get an encore? We want more!

2. A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.

   The encores were numerous.

1. Please perform again!

present singular third person encores · participle present encoring · participle past encored · past encored

1. transitiveTo call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.

   to encore a song

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   to encore a performer

2. intransitiveTo call for an encore.
3. intransitiveTo perform an encore.

   They encored with a cover of the Beatles' “Blackbird,” “The Bigger You Love” in 1970, and “Ha Ha Ha” in early '71.

   2011, Bill Dahl, Motown: The Golden Years: More than 100 rare photographs, page 304

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   In youth we encore the sentiment, 'Oh, bless my country, Heaven! he said, and died:' but, as we advance in life, we think, 'How weak it is to pity Cato's case, Who might have lived, and had a handsome place!'

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Allusion to the Past”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 49

   Truly unbelievable. Left us all gasping for breath, and wanting more. I think they encored twice, but twenty encores would have been too few.

   2011, Smitty Herron, Music's Golden Frontier