Definition of "call-and-response" [call-and-response]

Of or relating to a style of singing in which the melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by another or others. (adjective)

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Use "call-and-response" in a sentence

"She had a call-and-response catchphrase/greeting with home-shoppers who would call in: "Quack, quack!""
"During a spaghetti dinner that Romney was hosting at the Tilton School in Tilton, N.H., protestors used the "human microphone," a call-and-response tactic originally designed to get around New York's ban on use of amplification equipment without a permit."
"He lands hammer blows of bass on Flash Back as a funked-up melody zigzags overhead; he cycles through the jabbing riff of Hover Traps in one sound after another, like a call-and-response among friends."

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