grattar solo

short for gratuitous guitar solo, a rock-style electric guitar solo thrown into a sugary song to attempt to give the song a "hard edge" but which ends up sounding out of place in the song. The long versions of cute anime theme songs commonly have grattar solos.

I'd like the theme to the Ichigo Mashimaro OAV better if they'd just left out the grattar solo.

by Slayermoon June 17, 2008