go-go

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It's a very realistic portrayal of New York in the 1990s, during the hangover from the go-go spending 80s and before the clean slate of the new millennium.

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  1. adjective Informal Of or relating to discotheques or to the energetic music and dancing performed at discotheques.
  2. adjective Informal Marked by assertive action: a go-go sales executive.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or engaging in a type of speculative, short-term stock-market operation: a go-go fund.

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  • Now, analysts say, Evergrande has become a symbol of China's go-go era of investing, when international bankers, private equity deal makers and hedge fund managers rushed here hoping to cash in on the world's biggest building boom. —  DealBook
  • Sitting in a room in New Jersey, chaperoned by her caseworker, Mimi prepares to recount her story for Sabella, who was once a teenage go-go dancer in a club in Bucks County. —  www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly
  • But lots of ultra-sleazy elements - rapes, murders, hallucinations, go-go girls, predatory lesbians, you name it baby!
  • And homeless camps, which Japan had never seen before in the post-war era, go-go years, dotted the banks of the rivers that wind their way through major cities like Tokyo and Osaka. —  US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • It's a very realistic portrayal of New York in the 1990s, during the hangover from the go-go spending 80s and before the clean slate of the new millennium. —  Comics Worth Reading
 

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  1. From à gogo.
  2. Intensive reduplication (influenced by go-go1) of go1.
 

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