Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)A style of funk music from the 1970s.

Origin

1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from Fren

1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo (“abundant”)), partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go.

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