open mic
noun
variants
or less commonly open mike
: an event in which amateurs may perform (as at a comedy club) usually without auditioning first
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A lot of neo-soul at the time sounded more like ad-libs and open mics, like a poetry session and people were scatting their way through the song.
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Marcus J. Moore, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
Sure, there’s karaoke and open mic – who hasn’t done that?
—Anita Gosch, Orange County Register, 9 Mar. 2025
The three of them met at a teen open mic in the summer of 2019.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025
The joke on the open mic, which was not broadcast live but leaked later, resulted in a Soviet red alert − and temporarily moved the U.S. and Soviet Union toward war.
—Chris Lamb, The Conversation, 2 May 2025
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Marcus J. Moore, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
Sure, there’s karaoke and open mic – who hasn’t done that?
—Anita Gosch, Orange County Register, 9 Mar. 2025
The three of them met at a teen open mic in the summer of 2019.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025
The joke on the open mic, which was not broadcast live but leaked later, resulted in a Soviet red alert − and temporarily moved the U.S. and Soviet Union toward war.
—Chris Lamb, The Conversation, 2 May 2025
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“Open mic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20mic. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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