outro

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ/
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/ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ/ · /ˈaʊ.tɹəʊ/

Definition of outro

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (informal)A portion of music at the end of a song.
    “[…] talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning […]”
    “Find the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up.”
    “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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noun

  1. (informal)A portion of music at the end of a song.
    “[…] talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning […]”
    “Find the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up.”
    “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, […]”
  2. (informal)The 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:”

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Etymology

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.

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