Etymology

1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from FrenchCategory:English terms derived from French#GOGO à gogo (“abundant”)Category:English undefined derivations#GOGO),^[1] partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go.^[2][3]

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

Noun

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go-go

Wikipedia

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1. (musicCategory:en:Music#GOGO) A style of funk music from the 1970s.

Adjective

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1. Of or relating to this style of music.
2. Of or relating to the style of music played at discotheques.
3. Fast and lively.

Verb

go-go (third-person singular simple present go-gos, present participle go-going, simple past and past participle go-goed)Category:English lemmas#GOGOCategory:English verbs#GOGOCategory:English multiword terms#GOGOCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GOGOCategory:Pages with entries#GO-GOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#GO-GO

1. To dance to this style of music, with the aim to entertain
   • 2002 September 20, 47:24 from the start, in The Whistleblower Who Changed History‎ (podcast), spoken by Laura Palmer, published 2023 via WNYC, archived from the original on 29-6-2023:

     Then he looked at me with all earnestness and said to me, "Miss, Laura, would you go-go for me?"

     Category:English terms with quotations#GOGO

Derived terms

• go-go boot
• go-go fund
• go-go girl
• go-go juice
• go-go dancer

See also

• à gogo

References

Anagrams

• GOOG, goog

Etymology

From EnglishCategory:Finnish terms borrowed from English#GOGOCategory:Finnish terms derived from English#GOGO go-go.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːɡoː/, [ˈɡo̞ːɡo̞ː]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#GOGOCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#GOGO
• Rhymes: -oːɡoːCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/oːɡoː#GOGOCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/oːɡoː/2 syllables#GOGOCategory:fi-pronunciation missing automatic hyphenation#GOGO

Noun

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1. (musicCategory:fi:Music#GOGO) go-go

Further reading

• “go-go”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from English#GO-GOCategory:Indonesian unadapted borrowings from English#GO-GOCategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#GO-GO go-go (“go-go”).

Noun

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1. (danceCategory:id:Dance#GO-GO) dance with go-go music

Further reading

• “go-go”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016