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go-go

  [goh-goh]
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–adjective Informal.
1. full of energy, vitality, or daring: the go-go generation.
2. stylish, modern, or up-to-date: the go-go social set.
3. of or pertaining to the music and dancing performed at discotheques or nightclubs.
4. performing at a discotheque or nightclub.
5. seeking large earnings quickly by trading aggressively and often speculatively in stocks: a go-go mutual fund.
6. marked by swift price upswings due to excessive speculation: a go-go stock.
7. being a time of great prosperity, economic growth, and optimism: the go-go years of the 1920s.
Origin:
1960–65; redupl. of go 1 , influenced in some senses by À gogo
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Slang Dictionary
go-go [ˈgogo]

  1. mod.
    having to do with fast-dancing young women on display in a nightclub. : Those go-go places have mostly changed their style.
  2. mod.
    vigorous; energetic; frantically moving. (Extended from sense 1.) : I bought some silly go-go stock, and it collapsed immediately.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

go-go 
1964, "fashionable," from slang the go "the rage" (1962); see go. First appearance of go-go dancer is from 1965.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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