Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A style of funk music from the 1970s.
verb
To dance to this style of music, with the aim to entertain
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOf or relating to this style of music. · Of or relating to the style of music played at discotheques. · Fast and lively.
1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo (“abundant”)), partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go. Compare to French yéyé (yeah-yeah), of contemporary coinage.
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