sing-off

noun

A competition between two or more singers where each tries to do better than the last.

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Meanings

nounsing-off (plural sing-offs)

plural sing-offs

  1. A competition between two or more singers where each tries to do better than the last.

    There's nothing like the life-or-death drama of an X Factor sing-off.

    2015, Steve Brookstein, Getting Over the X, page 49
    2 more examples

    The two of them engaged in a sing-off until they realized that both tunes had the same beat.

    2014, Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love, page 316

    This really is Anything Goes, not just a Cole Porter sing-off using portions of the Anything Goes narrative.

    2015, Ethan Mordden, Sing for Your Supper: The Broadway Musical in the 1930s, page 76

Origin

From sing + -off.

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Chicago

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