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go-go
(go-go)
adjective
[
attributive
]
1
relating to or denoting an unrestrained and erotic style of dancing to popular music:
a go-go bar
go-go dancers
2
North American
assertively dynamic:
the go-go bravado of the 1980s
noun
[
mass noun
]
a style of soul music originating in the black communities of Washington DC and characterized by an incessant funk beat.
Origin:
1960s
: reduplication of
go
1
, perhaps influenced by
a gogo
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