go-go

noun

A style of funk music from the 1970s.

OriginFrench à gogo →
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Meanings

noungo-go (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentA style of funk music from the 1970s.
adjectivego-go (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or relating to this style of music.
  2. not comparableOf or relating to the style of music played at discotheques.
  3. not comparableFast and lively.
verbgo-go (third-person singular simple present go-gos, present participle go-going, simple past and past participle go-goed)

present singular third person go-gos · participle present go-going · participle past go-goed · past go-goed

  1. To dance to this style of music, with the aim to entertain

    Then he looked at me with all earnestness and said to me, "Miss, Laura, would you go-go for me?"

    2002 September 20, 47:24 from the start, in The Whistleblower Who Changed History (podcast), spoken by Laura Palmer, published 2023 via WNYC, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2023

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Frenchà gogo“abundant”
  2. Englishgo-go

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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APA

go-go. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-go

MLA

“go-go.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-go. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go-go,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go-go.

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