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go-go definition

go·-go (gō′)

adjective

  1. of dancing to rock music, as in discothèques
  2. of a dancer, often semi-nude, performing erotic movements to rock music, as in a bar
  3. Business, Finance, Informal
    1. of or characterized by dramatic appreciation or expansion the go-go years for U.S. automakers
    2. of or characterized by aggressive, often highly speculative, buying and selling go-go mutual funds, a go-go stock market

Etymology: short for à gogo < Fr, in plenty, ad lib., in clover < à, to + gogo, abundance, jocular redupl. of gogue, joy, prob. of echoic orig.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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