go-go

Meanings

Noun

• A style of funk music from the 1970s.

Adjective

• Of, or relating to this style of music.
• Of, or relating to the style of music played at discotheques.
• Fast and lively.

Origin

• 1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo), partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go, from sense the go as in on the go.
• Compare to French yéyé, of contemporary coinage.