open mic
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- noun
- /ˈoʊpən maɪk/
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micrófono abierto
- Every Thursday, I go to the local café for their open mic night to watch talented musicians perform.
- open mic night
Do you remember your first open mic gig, getting on stage?
- Do you remember your first open mic gig, getting on stage?
- All right, let's go do some open mics.
- So I went to Bowsers in Dundee and they used to have an open mic.
- It's when my mom gave me a clipping that she found in the local paper of like open mic night for stand up comedy.
- When I think about things I did on stage, I'm like your worst fringe freak at an open mic night who's terrible.
- I, I did, I did something in, oh, the improv like open mic and it, and it was terrible.
- We have like open mic nights at pubs or bars, but it's not, it's nowhere near as big as it is in the States.
- And so people from the college could come and play at the open mic night.
- My cousins who were in England said, hey, there's a open mic night, you should go.
- I'm not like, I, I came up at the open mics being like, Oh, well, drinks are free.
Examples
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My brother came home one day and said he went down to the comedy club to do open mic night and he did so bad.
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Do you know we actually met at an open mic night.
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And I went and did an open mic night and I was OK.
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Like, maybe check out an open mic or something.
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Dude, we are gonna smoke the competition at the open mic night tonight.
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Hey, it's open mic night, guys.
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Her plan is to just drive around city to city, state to state, doing open mic nights, like living a simple life.
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And we're gonna totally win that money next week at the open mic contest.
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Or would you prefer going to that open mic comedy club with a couple of mates?
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Every week we go to Gusto's and check out open mic nights.
How Open
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'open' (available to all) with 'mic' (microphone), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a situation where the microphone is open for anyone to use — i.e., an event where people take turns performing. This composition follows a common English pattern (open + noun) and is largely cross-linguistically transparent, though full cultural details about typical performances may require minimal exposure.
Etymology
Open mic comes from events where the mic is really open for anyone to use, and people take turns stepping up to the mic to sing, tell jokes, or read poems. So, it now means 'an event where anyone can perform'.