Meanings
plural outros
- informalentertainmentA portion of music at the end of a song.
2009, 24 September, Jude Rogers in The Guardian, The trouble with remastered records But then something happens on I Want You (She's So Heavy), two minutes into the song's intense outro, when a cloud of white noise comes in, […]
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[…] talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning […]
1977, Claude Hall, Barbara Hall, This business of radio programmingFind the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up.
1992, Bruce Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett, Practical recording techniques - informalThe closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game, etc.
Having gone through the intro and stopped, the next click plays the outro of the current section and then hits the following script at the end of the outro animation:
2007, Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser, Learning ActionScript 3.0: a beginner's guide
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Blend of out + intro, an analogy using out as the opposite of in. First attested in the title of the song The Intro and the Outro (1967), by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and written by Vivian Stanshall.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch naspel, outro
- naspelmusical ending
- outromusical ending
Finnish outro
- outromusical ending
Māori whakatepe, timu
- whakatepemusical ending
- timumusical ending
Spanish cierre, epílogo
- cierremusical ending
- epílogomusical ending
- conclusiónmusical ending
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
outro. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outro
“outro.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outro. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outro,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outro.
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