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go-go

[ goh-goh ]

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adjective

full of energy, vitality, or daring:
the go-go generation.
stylish, modern, or up-to-date:
the go-go social set.
of or relating to the music and dancing performed at discotheques or nightclubs.
performing at a discotheque or nightclub.
seeking large earnings quickly by trading aggressively and often speculatively in stocks:
a go-go mutual fund.
marked by swift price upswings due to excessive speculation:
a go-go stock.
being a time of great prosperity, economic growth, and optimism:
the go-go years of the 1920s.

noun

gogo.

go-go

adjective

of or relating to discos or the lively music and dancing performed in them
dynamic or forceful

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Word History and Origins

Origin of go-go¹

First recorded in 1960–65; reduplication of go ¹, influenced in some senses by à gogo

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Word History and Origins

Origin of go-go¹

C20: altered from French à-��ǲ�� aplenty, ad lib: sense influenced by English verb go

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“I was the proverbial hippie,” she told Florida Weekly in 2020, working as a heavy-set comedic go-go dancer.

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Go-Go’s frontwoman Belinda Carlisle asked the crowd of older Coachella-goers sweating under the late afternoon sun before the band launched into its set with the hit “Vacation.”

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The most private Go-Go, Caffey isn’t on social media like her bandmates.

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Perhaps no one is more excited about the reunited Go-Go’s upcoming slate of high-profile gigs than Gina Schock.

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After playing dates in San Francisco and Las Vegas, they’ll wrap it up at the Cruel World festival in Pasadena on May 17, making the Go-Go’s one of the few bands to play the larger, more eclectic and current Indio, Calif., festival and the ’80s-leaning Pasadena fest in the same calendar year.

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