Definition of "encore"

encore

/ˈɒŋkɔː/

noun
plural encores
1. A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
2. A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
interjection
1. (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!
verb
third-person singular simple present encores, present participle encoring, simple past and past participle encored
1. (transitive) To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
2. (intransitive) To call for an encore.
3. (intransitive) To perform an encore.
  Quotations
  In youth we encore the sentiment, 'Oh, bless my country, Heaven! he said, and died:' but, as we advance in life, we think, 'How weak it is to pity Cato's case, Who might have lived, and had a handsome place!'
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Allusion to the Past”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 49
  They encored with a cover of the Beatles' “Blackbird,” “The Bigger You Love” in 1970, and “Ha Ha Ha” in early '71.
  2011, Bill Dahl, Motown: The Golden Years: More than 100 rare photographs, page 304
  Truly unbelievable. Left us all gasping for breath, and wanting more. I think they encored twice, but twenty encores would have been too few.
  2011, Smitty Herron, Music's Golden Frontier