Go-go Definition

gōgō

adjective

Of dancing to rock music, as in discothèques.

Webster's New World

Of a dancer, often semi-nude, performing erotic movements to rock music, as in a bar.

Webster's New World

Marked by assertive action.

A go-go sales executive.

American Heritage

Of or characterized by dramatic appreciation or expansion.

The go-go years for U.S. automakers.

Webster's New World

Of, relating to, or engaging in a type of speculative, short-term stock-market operation.

A go-go fund.

American Heritage

noun

A girl’s elasticated hair band.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary

(music) A style of funk music from the 1970s.

Wiktionary

Origin of Go-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.

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Compare to French yéyé (yeah-yeah), of contemporary coinage.

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Zulu ugogo

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From à gogo

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition