out-chorus
Definitions
noun
The return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance
1991, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., "Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry" in Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.), Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin’, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, p. 149, https://books.google.ca/books?id=Nn6y4iHj6_MC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I also hear the trombone's held-notes in the out-chorus (B⁷) as evocative "shouts" that Signify black religious shouting and its counterpart expression in secular life—calls, cries, and hollers […]
[…] the treatment of Monk's classic blues from 1947, "Misterioso," includes a torrent of notes from Adderley's cornet in the opening solo chorus matched by a hot, intense solo by Johnson before the out chorus.
verb
To sing in chorus better, longer or louder than.
1831, Thomas Thomson, "The London Drama, Regent's Park, London, Monday, Jan. 10th, 1831, in The Edinburgh Literary Journal; or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh, p. 51, https://books.google.ca/books?id=uPsVAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] the audience right loyally insisted on having "God save the King," and far out-chorussed the professional singers on the stage.