INTRO

• '101' course

• 101 class, briefly

• At first I was afraid, I was petrified, e.g.

• He-e-ere's Johnny!, e.g.

• Heeeeere's Johnny! is one

• In this corner... begins one, briefly

• Ladies and gentlemen..., e.g.

• SNL guest's monologue, e.g.

• SNL host's monologue, e.g.

• 101 course, generally

• 101 course, typically

• 101 title word

• A few opening remarks

• A job for an emcee

• A speaker gets one

• Announcer's opening

• Ballad lead-in

• Beginning

• Book opener

• Brief beginning

• Brief foreword

• Brief opening

• Brief opening statement?

• Brief overture?

• Chap. 1 preceder

• Conclusion's opposite

• Conclusion's opposite, briefly

• Debut

• Deejay's spiel

• Emcee piece

• Emcee's bit

• Emcee's brief spiel

• Emcee's chore

• Emcee's delivery

• Emcee's duty

• Emcee's forte

• Emcee's job

• Emcee's kickoff

• Emcee's lead-in

• Emcee's line

• Emcee's offering

• Emcee's opening

• Emcee's opening lines

• Emcee's opening remarks

• Emcee's prologue

• Emcee's remarks

• Emcee's responsibility

• Emcee's specialty

• Emcee's spiel

• Emcee's talk

• Emcee's task, often

• Emcee's text

• Emcee's words

• Exordium, informally

• First album track, perhaps

• First couple of pages in a book, often

• First few bars

• First lines

• First paragraph

• First part of a song

• First part, for short

• First song on a CD

• First song on an album

• First song on an album, perhaps

• First track on a mix tape, usually

• First track, often

• First words

• First-year course

• Foreword

• Foreword, briefly

• Foreword, e.g.

• Foreword, for short

• Freshman course

• Freshman course word

• Freshman's course, briefly

• Frosh course word

• Headliner's cue

• Ice breaker, briefly

• It could be four bars

• It may begin And now...

• It may begin with Here's

• It precedes the lyrics

• It sets the scene

• It's a start

• Jazz singer's cue

• Jazz vamp

• Job for an emcee

• Keynote precursor

• Lead-in

• Lead-in for short

• Lead-in, briefly

• Leno welcome, e.g.

• Leno welcome, for example

• Line from Leno

• Low-level course

• Many a freshman course

• Many a frosh course

• MC's duty

• MC's function

• MC's job

• MC's lead-in

• MC's specialty

• MC's spiel

• Musical beginning

• Musical lead-in

• Musical opening

• Musical passage

• Musical prelim

• Musical start, for short

• Musical vamp

• Musician's lead-in

• Name and number

• Opener

• Opening

• Opening bars

• Opening bit

• Opening comments

• Opening for an act

• Opening lines

• Opening musical bars, for short

• Opening musical passage

• Opening notes

• Opening passage

• Opening remark

• Opening remarks, briefly

• Opening remarks, casually

• Opening speech

• Opening spiel

• Opening statement

• Opening statement, for short

• Opening words

• Opening words, for short

• Overture or prelude

• Overture, for short

• Part of the front matter

• Performance lead-in

• Performance preceder

• Podium prelim

• Preamble

• Preamble, for short

• Preface

• Preface, for short

• Prefatory words

• Prefix for mission

• Prefix with version

• Prelim

• Preliminary comment

• Preliminary remarks

• Preliminary remarks (Abbr.)

• Prelude

• Prelude, for short

• Proem

• Proem or prelude

• Prologue

• Prologue, briefly

• Prologue, e.g.

• Setup, of a sort

• Short beginning

• Short lead-in

• Short opening speech

• Short preamble

• Short preface

• Short presentation

• Shortened word in college catalogs

• Some words from the emcee

• Song opener

• Song part before the opening line

• Song prelude

• Song start

• Song's opening bars

• Speaker's lead-in

• Speaker's need

• Speaker's setup

• Speaker's start

• Start

• Start of a song

• Starting words

• Theme song

• Toastmaster's opening

• Up-front material

• Vamp

• Vamp, perhaps

• Vamp's relative

• Warm-up before an audience, maybe

• What an emcee gives before an act appears

• Words about a speaker, briefly

• Words before the talk show guest enters

• Words from an emcee

• Formally making a person known to another or to the public

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