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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Informal Of or relating to discotheques or to the energetic music and dancing performed at discotheques.
  2. adj. Informal Marked by assertive action: a go-go sales executive.
  3. adj. Of, relating to, or engaging in a type of speculative, short-term stock-market operation: a go-go fund.
  4. adj. Characterized by the fast growth and development that invites speculative investment: go-go industries such as microprocessing and laser technology.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music A style of funk music from the 1970s.
  2. adj. Of, or relating to this style of music.
  3. adj. Of, or relating to the style of music played at discotheques.
  4. adj. Fast and lively.

Etymologies

  1. 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. (Wiktionary)
  2. From à gogo.Intensive reduplication (influenced by go-go1) of go1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby "All of them, the go-go dancers, the prostitutes, the widows whose president misappropriated their meagre funds, the dead, the imprisoned, are casualties of American policy in Vietnam. If the Americans were to vanish tomorrow, the scars of their presence would not heal for a generation."
    - Germaine Greer, 'Saigon', Sunday Times, 1971. Apr 13, 2008

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