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disco|ˈdɪskəʊ|
1. a. Colloq. abbrev. (orig. U.S.) of discothèque. Also, the equipment for playing records at a discothèque.
1964Playboy Sept. 55/3 Los Angeles has emerged with the biggest and brassiest of the discos. 1970R. Garrett Run Down i. 29 I've watched the smut bookshops, the neon palaces, the gambling dens, the discos. 1972Oxf. Mail 7 Jan. 2 (Advt.), Velvet Sound's Disco for hire.
b. ellipt. for disco music.
1975N.Y. Times 12 July 27/4 The hustle..is danced to ‘disco’, a black-based rhythm and blues characterized by a strong, rhythmic bass guitar, that in itself is achieving wide popularity. 1979Guardian 16 June 10/2 Disco..[is] the most commercially successful new movement in pop music. 1980Oxford Times 4 Jan. 15/2 The music..is tedious disco produced by Pete Bellotte... The disco beat hardly varies from number to number.
2. a. attrib. and Comb., as disco-beat, disco-dancer, disco-dancing, disco sound, etc.
1965N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 46/1 A couple of scantily clad girls swiveled and undulated to the disco-beat. 1968Sunday Times 14 July 49 She is essentially a 3-minute discogirl, but her finale gave her a new dimension. 1970Times 17 June 27 Rivals Watneys have had a great success with their Birds Nest disco-pubs. 1974New Statesman 31 May 759/2 At the disco-dance in the evening, nonetheless, people said: ‘Aren't you frightened, surrounded by a mass of queers?’ 1975Forbes (N.Y.) 1 Aug. 35/3 (caption) Disco dancers. 1975Time (Canada ed.) 25 Aug. 49/2 Though New York City's blacks and Puerto Ricans have been doing the Hustle for years, its current vogue among people of all colors and ages has coincided with the explosion of ‘disco’ sound—rhythm and blues with a strong Latin beat. 1977Fanfare (Toronto) 19 Oct. 3/3 Nevertheless, club owners have not been slow to cash in on disco fever. 1978Financial Rev. (Austral.) 8 Sept. 2/1 Today, his weekly income is $1,200—and that's excluding profits from his disco dancers, [etc.]. 1978N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Dec. 124 Mr. Nagy, however, does not disco-dance. ‘I feel I have two left legs when it comes to that,’ he says. 1978Chatelaine Dec. 68/2 A bright exciting silk disco dress printed with exotic flowers. It's slashed to the waist and wraps the body on the bias. 1982Money Jan. 47/1 However, a decade of rapid inflation sent the market gyrating like a frenzied disco dancer. 1984S. Townsend Growing Pains A. Mole 54, I dropped a hint by looking knowingly at her figure in its lycra body stocking and miniskirt but then the roller disco started and she sped off to do wild disco dancing on her skates.
b. Special Combs.: disco-funk, a style of popular music which combines the heavy beat of disco music with the qualities of funk (funk n.2 2); also disco-funky a.; discomania, addiction to or obsession with discothèques, disco music, or disco-dancing; hence discomaniac; disco music, a style of popular music frequently played in discothèques, which is characterized by a heavy bass beat.
1977Sounds 1 Jan. 17 And the Lord gave unto Moses the gift of *Disco Funk, and Moses gave it unto the people, who saw that it was good. 1984Oxford Times 6 Jan. 12/3 Relaxed disco-funk from the British singer who started with Hi-Tension and then had a couple of solo hits.
1976Sounds 11 Dec. 28/6 You know the sort of thing, smacking disco-funky rhythm tracks draped with vast sheets of strings. 1977Time 27 June 56/1 *Discomania is the latest passion of faddish, fickle American city dwellers. 1986N.Y. Times 25 May 22/4 Another recent New York production has been compared to discomania.
1977Telegraph (Brisbane) 2 Nov. 42/3 His co-star, Karen Gorney, is in fact a discomaniac.
1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Sept. 29/5 *Disco music, like clothes, may be desperately draining the past; the music is nowhere, but the listeners are in Nirvana. 1986Christian Science Monitor 2 June 13/3 Children..chased their friends through a bamboo maze to the sound of Hong Kong disco music.
Hence as v. intr., to dance at a discothèque or in the manner of disco-dancing.
1979N.Y. Post 12 Jan. 18 It was a hot night the following spring and she was at Studio 54 and she was discoing with a kid who looked like Bruce Jenner. 1985N.Y. Times 10 Nov. 11nj 37/4 If not for her headache and his back, they probably would have discoed till dawn on this romantic weekend.
▸ disco biscuit n. slang (a) U.S. a quaalude tablet (now rare); (b) orig. and chiefly Brit. (a tablet of) ecstasy (MDMA).
1981Newsweek 28 Sept. 93/1 They prescribe a bottle of Quaaludes, a powerful and popular sedative known technically as methaqualone—and to legions of abusers as ‘pillows’, ‘*disco biscuits’ and ‘vitamin Q’. 1991Guardian (Nexis) 12 Oct. He gave me a small white tablet which he called a disco biscuit, and pretty soon I was being attacked by wolves. 1996Independent on Sunday 28 Jan. (Real Lives Suppl.) 4/6 The same friend recommended Ecstasy... At the next crowded party, I scoffed a disco-biscuit with glee. It was downhill all the way. 1999SL (Cape Town) June 119/1 [Polarisation] is predicated on the choice of recreational substance... If you prefer a disco biscuit (or seven) the only thing that will satisfy you is hard house. |