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go-go

Definition of go-go

adjective

[attributive]
  • 1relating to or denoting an unrestrained and erotic style of dancing to popular music:a go-go bar go-go dancers
  • 2North 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 go1, perhaps influenced by a gogo

go-go in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of go-go in the US English dictionary