Meanings
- uncountableentertainmentA style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.
Acid House, this year's underground musical phenomenon, had finally made it into the living rooms of Britain. A nation, encountering for the first time a new music, fashion, and cultural phenomenon, flew into another drug-obsessed moral panic.
1989 January, Sean O'Hagan, “Acid House”, in SPIN, SPIN Media LLC, page 64Synonyms: acid
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.
Origin
First appears c. 1988, in the periodical New Musical Express. Likely a reference to acid (“LSD, psychedelic drugs”), influenced by earlier acid rock. See Acid House § Etymology.
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