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go-go

A style of funk music from the 1970s.

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    Origin

    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.

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

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    • derivedFrenchà gogo “abundant”

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