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/ˈdɪskəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdɪskoʊ/ Originally U.S. (colloquial).
1.
a. A nightclub or similar venue at which recorded music is played (usually by a DJ) for dancing, typically having a powerful sound system, a dance floor, and elaborate lighting effects. Now also (chiefly British): an event or party with music, lighting, or dancing typical of such a venue; (also occasionally) a mobile sound or lighting system used at this. Cf. discotheque n. 2.Recorded earliest in attributive use.Now somewhat dated when referring to a venue, nightclub or club being the more usual terms.roller disco, school disco: see the first element.
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > to recorded music
record hop1942
disco1957
discotheque1960
society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall > types of
dance-cellar1855
hurdy-gurdy house1866
bal musette1926
disco1957
discotheque1960
roller disco1978
1957 Manchester Guardian 8 July 3/5 8 July. 3/5 The scooter-riding, blue-jeans, coca-cola-drinking, disco-club young things are hotly modern in tendency.
1964 Playboy Sept. 56/2 Los Angeles has emerged with the biggest and brassiest of the discos.
1972 Oxf. Mail 7 Jan. 2 (advt.) Velvet Sound's Disco for hire.
1979 Winnipeg Free Press 16 June 21 At a disco, if you act like you're a somebody, you are somebody.
1988 J. D. Pistone & R. Woodley Donnie Brasco 47 We went to Hippopotamus, the popular disco at Sixty-first Street and York Avenue.
1990 Gay Times Dec. 92/2 Monthly..lesbian and gay disco... Funk, house, pop, soul, hi/NRG.
1992 ‘D. Taylor’ Not Fair iii. 65 The Cavenhams had laid on a disco and a steel band and a barbecue.
2000 J. Farrer in D. S. Davis Consumer Revol. Urban China x. 233 Many of the small local discos..imitated the larger clubs in design, music, and style.
2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 119 ‘A disco?’ Skippy says. ‘They do it every year,’ Dennis says. ‘Everyone dresses up.’
b. A genre of strongly rhythmical pop music mainly intended for dancing in nightclubs and particularly popular in the mid to late 1970s. Cf. earlier disco beat n., disco music n. at Compounds 4.Disco developed from funk and soul, and is typically characterized by its emphasis on a strong regular beat, a prominent bass line, a rhythmic guitar part, often elaborate instrumental backing, and the use of synthesizers.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music
a cappella1905
soundclash1925
marabi1933
doo-wop1958
filk1959
folk-rock1963
Liverpool sound1963
Mersey beat1963
Mersey sound1963
surf music1963
malombo1964
mbaqanga1964
easy listening1965
disco music1966
Motown1966
boogaloo1967
power pop1967
psychedelia1967
yé-yé1967
agitpop1968
bubblegum1968
Tamla Motown1968
Tex-Mex1968
downtempo1969
taarab1969
thrash1969
world music1969
funk1970
MOR1970
tropicalism1970
Afrobeat1971
electro-pop1971
post-rock1971
techno-pop1971
Tropicalia1971
tropicalismo1971
disco1972
Krautrock1972
schlager1973
Afropop1974
punk funk1974
disco funk1975
Europop1976
mgqashiyo1976
P-funk1976
funkadelia1977
karaoke music1977
alternative music1978
hardcore1978
psychobilly1978
punkabilly1978
R&B1978
cowpunk1979
dangdut1979
hip-hop1979
Northern Soul1979
rap1979
rapping1979
jit1980
trance1980
benga1981
New Romanticism1981
post-punk1981
rap music1981
scratch1982
scratch-music1982
synth-pop1982
electro1983
garage1983
Latin1983
Philly1983
New Age1984
New Age music1985
ambient1986
Britpop1986
gangster rap1986
house1986
house music1986
mbalax1986
rai1986
trot1986
zouk1986
bhangra1987
garage1987
hip-house1987
new school1987
old school1987
thrashcore1987
acid1988
acid house1988
acid jazz1988
ambience1988
Cantopop1988
dance1988
deep house1988
industrial1988
swingbeat1988
techno1988
dream pop1989
gangsta rap1989
multiculti1989
new jack swing1989
noise-pop1989
rave1989
Tejano1989
breakbeat1990
chill-out music1990
indie1990
new jack1990
new jill swing1990
noisecore1990
baggy1991
drum and bass1991
gangsta1991
handbag house1991
hip-pop1991
loungecore1991
psychedelic trance1991
shoegazing1991
slowcore1991
techno-house1991
gabba1992
jungle1992
sadcore1992
UK garage1992
darkcore1993
dark side1993
electronica1993
G-funk1993
sampladelia1994
trip hop1994
break1996
psy-trance1996
nu skool1997
folktronica1999
dubstep2002
Bongo Flava2003
grime2003
Bongo2004
singeli2015
1972 Boston Globe 12 Feb. 14/5 Now they want to become proficient in all the traditional dances, the waltz, fox trot and tango. I'm convinced that disco is on the way out.
1975 N.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.
1976 Billboard 23 Oct. 44/4 Gloria Gaynor..proudly announced that she does not feel boxed in by disco.
1979 Guardian 16 June 10/2 Disco..[is] the most commercially successful new movement in pop music.
1983 People Weekly (U.S.) 17 Jan. 52/1 Born in the Bronx and Harlem in the mid-'70s as a reaction against disco, rap lays a hip-hopping patter of chanted, rhymed lyrics over a funk beat.
1987 J. Curtis Rock Eras xvi. 295 Disco began in gay and black clubs, primarily in New York City.
2011 D. C. Deulen Riots 28 Angel-bug and I drive around listening to disco in his aqua-colored car.
2. In full disco dress. A style of short sleeveless dress suitable for dancing in a discotheque. Cf. discotheque dress n. at discotheque n. Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown
robec1225
frock1538
attire1587
gown1716
dress1802
disco1964
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of
disco1964
1964 Boston Globe 1 July 27/6 And the ‘Disco’ dresses with fringe of silk or beads, flounces and jet, with ‘moveability’.
1964 Salt Lake Tribune 12 July 4 w/3 The 'disco' to the fashion-hep means a short, bare-topped dress whose main ingredient is that it must swing.
1978 Chatelaine 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.
1992 D. Kondo in J. Tobin Re-made in Japan (1994) x. 185 The Comme des Garçons showings of 1991 including an evening collection reminiscent of Paco Rabanne's disco dresses of the 1960s.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 1b), as disco hit, disco queen, disco sound, etc.
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1957Disco club [see sense 1a].
1964 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 25 July 6 (heading) 'Disco' look fashion news.
1968 Sunday Times 14 July 49 She is essentially a 3-minute discogirl, but her finale gave her a new dimension.
1974 Billboard 5 Oct. 80/1 Another funky rocker which should..be another instant disco hit.
1975 Time (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.
1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City (1989) lxii. 205 Wait till tonight... All of the little disco bunnies will emerge.
1990 F. Dannen Hit Men (1991) vii. 140 Aside from being Scholz's lawyer, he also represented disco queen Donna Summer.
1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xvii. 200 On a disco night, the girls turn up at the main gate after filling in a security form.
1991 N.Y. Times 13 Nov. c1/2 The 70's, the disco decade!
2011 S. J. Stevenson Latte Rebellion 160 We yelled along with the lyrics of really stupid disco songs on her MP3 player.
C2. Instrumental compounds (chiefly in sense 1b), as disco-based, disco-influenced, etc.
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1974 Billboard 16 Nov. 54/2 Smooth instrumental introduction and excellent female lead vocals highlight this disco oriented cut.
1978 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. c15/5 This is not a disco musical. Only one or two numbers are disco based.
1988 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Nov. 1234/4 He overlays the map of our own disco-studded London on the restaurants and molly-houses of Wilde's.
1991 P. Sweeney Virgin Directory World Music 35 Mann..persisted through the lean disco-dominated seventies partly by updating a traditional rhythm, the osode.
1996 Big Issue 2 May 27/1 The A-side is an uplifting trancer.., with a kinda disco-influenced groove on the flipside.
2001 J. T. Sears Rebels, Rubyfruit, & Rhinestones xvii. 182 A disco-driven, recession-mired decade of pet rocks, gas station lines, and primal screams.
2008 Metro (Nexis) 7 Aug. (Liverpool ed.) 29 One of the DJs that manages to straddle disco-based, dark electronica and more classic Krautrock influences.
2010 A. Echols Hot Stuff iii. 94 She..began to shift gears in the direction of disco-inflected pop and jazz fusion.
C3. Designating styles of music which combine elements of disco (sense 1b) and another musical genre, as disco house, disco punk, etc. See also disco funk n. at Compounds 4.
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1975 New Yorker 21 Apr. 7/1 (advt.) Headhunters, a progressive disco-jazz quintet created in Herbie Hancock's image.
1980 Voice (S. Afr.) 20 Aug. 14 Scamto goes hand in glove with Jit, khwela, marabi, mbaqanga, soul, jazz, disco-jive.
1986 Billboard 13 Sept. 81/2 Mercurial star's bewildering parade of style changes now expands to include hi-tech disco-rock.
1992 Wire Apr. 40/1 It's disco-metal, a genre he more or less invented with ‘Beat It’.
1998 Time Out N.Y. 29 Oct. 80/2 Bobby B plays '60s punk, freakbeat and garage (meaning '60s punk, not soulful vocal disco house).
2006 List (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 14 Dec. 55/1 Expect disco punk, calculator funk, indie and electronica.
2008 S. Booth Dead Place 34 The noise from the ground-floor flat didn't even falter. Disco-house with urban drum loops at full volume.
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disco ball n. (a) U.S. a party or social event held at a discotheque (cf. ball n.3 2a); (b) a large decorative ball covered with small mirrored facets, typically suspended from the ceiling of a disco and rotated to produce lighting effects; cf. mirror ball n. at mirror n. Compounds 2.
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1966 N.Y. Amsterdam News 7 May 16/1 (heading) Northside gained from disco ball.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 2 Aug. f11 The shimmering facets of the silver disco ball unroll their endless possibilities.
2010 Richmond (Va.) Times Disp. (Nexis) 7 Mar. g7 Bell-bottoms, beads, Afro wigs, go-go boots and platform shoes competed with traditional dressy attire at the Historic Petersburg Foundation's seventh annual Disco Ball.
2011 L. Ortiz Disco Dance iv. 127 The décor consisted of a few red disco balls hung among the exposed drainpipes.
disco beat n. the strong rhythmical beat of disco music.
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1964 Los Angeles Times 27 Sept. 5/8 ‘Best of Paris’ brings the disco beat to May Co. in flirty dance dresses.
1983 J. McNaught Tender Triumph (1986) 72 Don's breath was hot in her ear as they danced to a throbbing disco beat.
2011 New Yorker 14 Feb. 26/2 ‘Why You Wanna See My Bad Side’, the opener of ‘Love Breeze’, has a percolating disco beat.
disco biscuit n. slang (a) U.S. a Quaalude tablet (rare); (b) originally and chiefly British a tablet of ecstasy (MDMA).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > sedative drug or tablet
tranquillizer1800
goof ball1938
goof pill1948
pill1951
bomber1962
rainbow1963
downer1966
downie1966
down1967
disco biscuit1981
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > hallucinogenic drug > MDMA or ecstasy
MDMA1978
disco biscuit1981
Adam1983
ecstasy1985
molly2000
1981 Newsweek 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’.
1991 Melody Maker 11 May 4 (caption) I suppose ‘Disco Biscuit’ is a bit of a cheeky title for a track but I only called it that because I had one the night I started recording it.
1996 Independent on Sunday 28 Jan. (Real Lives section) 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.
2002 Scotsman 19 July (S2 section) 11 You could be shaking your booty and freeing your mind with disco-biscuits in a chrome'n'silver fleshpalace with lots of rave-totty?
disco dance n. a dance or dance move performed at a disco or to disco music; (also) a disco event, party, etc.
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1964 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 29 July 18/3 Irene Siegle demonstrates the Chicken Back, a disco dance.
1965 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 6 Mar. a15/2 Besides La Bostela, the current disco dance rages include the frug, watusi, jerk and the hully-gully.
1974 New Statesman 31 May 759/2 At the disco-dance in the evening..people said: ‘Aren't you frightened, surrounded by a mass of queers?’
2011 L. O'Clare Get Lucky i. 4 There was a disco dance, complete with a live DJ.
disco dance v. intransitive to perform disco dancing.
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1977 Los Angeles Times 22 Aug. 6/3 They watched or joined guests who were disco dancing on the first level.
1995 S. Brownell Training Body for China xi. 281 Older women often said they were urged to disco dance by their daughters-in-law.
2004 T. Guest My Life in Orange (2005) viii. 140 Hundreds of adults danced, sang, boogied, disco-danced.
disco dancer n. a dancer at a disco; esp. a person who performs disco dancing.
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1965 Dallas Morning News 5 Mar. 3/1 They are what commentator Mlle Monique Demeure calls a ‘lively bunch, out for fun’. All are great Disco dancers.
1982 Money Jan. 47/1 However, a decade of rapid inflation sent the market gyrating like a frenzied disco dancer.
2002 Time Out N.Y. 31 Oct. 89/1 Disco dancers will storm the stage when the Pioneer Theater undertakes its second annual ‘Stop, Look & Listen!’ film festival this week.
disco dancing n. dancing at a disco; esp. a style of dancing to disco music involving elaborate moves.
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1964 Dallas Morning News 8 July 2/3 Anthracite silk that drapes like chiffon swings at the knees for disco dancing.
1984 S. Townsend Growing Pains Adrian Mole 54 The roller disco started and she sped off to do wild disco dancing on her skates.
2005 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 2 Mar. 75 [He] began preaching meditation..and disco dancing as ways of unmooring oneself from earthly ties.
disco fever n. enthusiasm for disco music or discos.
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1976 Lawrence (Kansas) Jrnl. World 1 May 5/3 [Marvin] Gaye hasn't succumbed to disco fever.
2010 D. P. Hernandez Oye Como Va! iv. 65 Disco fever swept the nation in the 1970s.
disco funk n. a type of music which combines elements of disco and funk.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music
a cappella1905
soundclash1925
marabi1933
doo-wop1958
filk1959
folk-rock1963
Liverpool sound1963
Mersey beat1963
Mersey sound1963
surf music1963
malombo1964
mbaqanga1964
easy listening1965
disco music1966
Motown1966
boogaloo1967
power pop1967
psychedelia1967
yé-yé1967
agitpop1968
bubblegum1968
Tamla Motown1968
Tex-Mex1968
downtempo1969
taarab1969
thrash1969
world music1969
funk1970
MOR1970
tropicalism1970
Afrobeat1971
electro-pop1971
post-rock1971
techno-pop1971
Tropicalia1971
tropicalismo1971
disco1972
Krautrock1972
schlager1973
Afropop1974
punk funk1974
disco funk1975
Europop1976
mgqashiyo1976
P-funk1976
funkadelia1977
karaoke music1977
alternative music1978
hardcore1978
psychobilly1978
punkabilly1978
R&B1978
cowpunk1979
dangdut1979
hip-hop1979
Northern Soul1979
rap1979
rapping1979
jit1980
trance1980
benga1981
New Romanticism1981
post-punk1981
rap music1981
scratch1982
scratch-music1982
synth-pop1982
electro1983
garage1983
Latin1983
Philly1983
New Age1984
New Age music1985
ambient1986
Britpop1986
gangster rap1986
house1986
house music1986
mbalax1986
rai1986
trot1986
zouk1986
bhangra1987
garage1987
hip-house1987
new school1987
old school1987
thrashcore1987
acid1988
acid house1988
acid jazz1988
ambience1988
Cantopop1988
dance1988
deep house1988
industrial1988
swingbeat1988
techno1988
dream pop1989
gangsta rap1989
multiculti1989
new jack swing1989
noise-pop1989
rave1989
Tejano1989
breakbeat1990
chill-out music1990
indie1990
new jack1990
new jill swing1990
noisecore1990
baggy1991
drum and bass1991
gangsta1991
handbag house1991
hip-pop1991
loungecore1991
psychedelic trance1991
shoegazing1991
slowcore1991
techno-house1991
gabba1992
jungle1992
sadcore1992
UK garage1992
darkcore1993
dark side1993
electronica1993
G-funk1993
sampladelia1994
trip hop1994
break1996
psy-trance1996
nu skool1997
folktronica1999
dubstep2002
Bongo Flava2003
grime2003
Bongo2004
singeli2015
1975 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening News 2 Feb. (This Week Mag.) 16/2 Side one..is made memorable by the flat-out disco funk of ‘Dummy Up’.
1984 Oxf. 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.
2001 Wire June 72/1 ‘I Believe In Miracles’ is rise 'n' shine disco funk with cheetah drums.
disco funky adj. having the qualities of disco funk; containing elements of disco and funk.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop
metal?1518
anthemic1890
Afro-Latin-American1900
sun-kissed1907
heavy1937
Latin American1937
Memphis1938
sun-drenched1943
indie1945
rockish1955
hardcore1957
doo-wop1958
middle of the road1959
Latin1962
straight-ahead1964
easy listening1965
Motown1965
funky1967
post-rock1967
rocky1967
rock-out1968
funkadelic1969
funked out1970
grungy1971
punk1971
grunge1972
Philly1972
dub1973
drum and bass1975
disco funky1976
punkish1976
reggaefied1976
Britpop1977
post-punk1977
anarcho-punk1979
rap1980
trash rock1980
crunchy1981
industrial1981
New Romantic1981
rockist1981
garage1982
hip-hop1982
thrashy1982
urban1982
Gothic1983
hip-hopping1983
beat-box1984
lo-fi1986
technoid1986
hip-house1987
acid house1988
new jack1988
old school1988
techno1988
baggy1990
banging1990
gangsta1990
filthy1991
handbaggy1991
nu skool1991
sampladelic1991
junglist1993
1976 NY Times 28 Mar. §11. 23/1 During the off-season it offers ‘disco-funky’ music on Friday and Saturday nights.
2002 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 1 Aug. 26 The track's called Turn Me Up. It's a disco-funky thing.
discomania n. enthusiasm for or obsession with discos, disco music, or disco dancing.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [noun] > obsession with discotheques, music or dancing
discomania1965
society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > [noun] > mania for music > of specific type of music
Beatlemania1963
discomania1965
1965 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 14 Nov. c11/3 Dating is new to Uganda. Teen centers, U. S. style, are social headquarters. Discomania has really arrived.
1977 Time 27 June 56/1 Discomania is the latest passion of faddish, fickle American city dwellers.
2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 29 Dec. 11 Teenager Nicola McGregor is hoping to cash in on discomania by opening her own dance school.
discomaniac n. a person with an enthusiasm for or obsession with discos, disco music, or disco dancing.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [noun] > person
Saturday nighter1880
honky-tonker1910
nightclubber1913
nightlifer1929
nightcrawler1940
discomaniac1966
club-hopper1982
society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of pop music > of specific types of pop
hard rocker1942
skiffler1948
rock fan1959
rocker1963
discomaniac1966
Deadhead1971
punk rocker1972
punker1973
punkette1974
Krautrocker1976
punk1976
punk fan1976
punkster1976
new waver1977
soulie1978
post-punk1979
New Romantic1980
headbanger1981
skanker1983
grebo1987
old schooler1990
shoegazer1991
technoid1992
thrasher1992
gabba1995
1966 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 2 Oct. (This Week Mag.) 17/1 Disco-maniacs. For discothèque devotees, here’s a handsome, colorful ‘Cheetah’ button.
1976 Anderson (Indiana) Herald 26 Nov. 37/9 Like reggae, zydeco is a heavily syncopated ethnic music that shows promise of catching on with disco maniacs anxious for something new to dance to.
2010 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 17 May c4 Some 400 discomaniacs boogied the night away in support of the YMCA Strong Kids Campaign.
disco music n. = sense 1b.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music
a cappella1905
soundclash1925
marabi1933
doo-wop1958
filk1959
folk-rock1963
Liverpool sound1963
Mersey beat1963
Mersey sound1963
surf music1963
malombo1964
mbaqanga1964
easy listening1965
disco music1966
Motown1966
boogaloo1967
power pop1967
psychedelia1967
yé-yé1967
agitpop1968
bubblegum1968
Tamla Motown1968
Tex-Mex1968
downtempo1969
taarab1969
thrash1969
world music1969
funk1970
MOR1970
tropicalism1970
Afrobeat1971
electro-pop1971
post-rock1971
techno-pop1971
Tropicalia1971
tropicalismo1971
disco1972
Krautrock1972
schlager1973
Afropop1974
punk funk1974
disco funk1975
Europop1976
mgqashiyo1976
P-funk1976
funkadelia1977
karaoke music1977
alternative music1978
hardcore1978
psychobilly1978
punkabilly1978
R&B1978
cowpunk1979
dangdut1979
hip-hop1979
Northern Soul1979
rap1979
rapping1979
jit1980
trance1980
benga1981
New Romanticism1981
post-punk1981
rap music1981
scratch1982
scratch-music1982
synth-pop1982
electro1983
garage1983
Latin1983
Philly1983
New Age1984
New Age music1985
ambient1986
Britpop1986
gangster rap1986
house1986
house music1986
mbalax1986
rai1986
trot1986
zouk1986
bhangra1987
garage1987
hip-house1987
new school1987
old school1987
thrashcore1987
acid1988
acid house1988
acid jazz1988
ambience1988
Cantopop1988
dance1988
deep house1988
industrial1988
swingbeat1988
techno1988
dream pop1989
gangsta rap1989
multiculti1989
new jack swing1989
noise-pop1989
rave1989
Tejano1989
breakbeat1990
chill-out music1990
indie1990
new jack1990
new jill swing1990
noisecore1990
baggy1991
drum and bass1991
gangsta1991
handbag house1991
hip-pop1991
loungecore1991
psychedelic trance1991
shoegazing1991
slowcore1991
techno-house1991
gabba1992
jungle1992
sadcore1992
UK garage1992
darkcore1993
dark side1993
electronica1993
G-funk1993
sampladelia1994
trip hop1994
break1996
psy-trance1996
nu skool1997
folktronica1999
dubstep2002
Bongo Flava2003
grime2003
Bongo2004
singeli2015
1966 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. (Mag. section) 58/1 At show times, from ten o’clock ‘til the wee hours, Killer Joe..and his company perform with a pow to both live and disco music.
1969 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 6 Aug. 9/2 A merry presentation with the prettiest young models..in a zippy show done to disco music.
1973 Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times 26 Jan. 22/6 Doris Duke brought her own silver dancing shoes for the disco music.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Sept. 29/5 Disco music, like clothes, may be desperately draining the past.
1984 M. Bronski Culture Clash 184 Specific items like disco music and certain clothes may cross over from the gay subculture to the mainstream.
2005 K. Cino East Shore Babe ii. 22 Katherine was known for her dark sunglasses and loud radio playing disco music.
disco nap n. originally and chiefly North American a brief nap taken to restore a person's energy before attending a nightclub or late-night party; (hence more generally) any brief restorative nap, a power nap.
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1990 N.Y. Newsday 17 June (Travel section) 13/1 I had slept from midnight to 4 a.m., an extended ‘disco nap’ as New Yorkers say.
1999 Paper Mar. 107/3 Take a disco nap, that's the key. You wake up at 5 or 6 and go dancing until noon.
2012 N.Y. Mag. 19 Nov. 16/2 The time is now 9:40 p.m., and he's got to get to more interviews... ‘There's no disco nap for you,’ his press secretary declares.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
discon.2
/ˈdɪskəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdɪskoʊ/ A company engaged in the distribution of public energy supplies.
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1987 New Mexico Business Jrnl. June 77 PNM's latest proposal to form a holding company and split the utility's operations into a generating company (GENCO) and a distribution company (DISCO) would presumably end the argument over excess generating costs.
1988 Financial World 5 Jan. 48/3 The utility would be the first to split into two independent electric-power subsidiaries: a wholesale power generating unit (‘genco’)..and a retail distribution unit (‘disco’).
1990 Observer 18 Mar. 57/7 It is argued that smaller distcos, such as Manweb and South Wales, will have lower growth prospects to push down costs and consequently higher ‘X’ factors.
2009 H. Bevrani Robust Power Syst. Frequency Control iii. 45 The Disco is responsible for buying power from Gencos and getting it directly or through transmission companies (Transcos) to its load.
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discov.
/ˈdɪskəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdɪskoʊ/ intransitive. To dance at a nightclub or disco. Also: to perform disco dancing. Cf. disco dance vb. at disco n.1 Compounds 4.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances to specific popular music > [verb (intransitive)]
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1976 Bucks County (Levittown, Pa.) Courier Times 15 Sept. c36/2 Act Two started off with a bang as Ms Gaynor and her male dancers sang and discoed to ‘Fifth of Beethoven’.
1979 N.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.
1992 P. Gethers Cat who went to Paris vi. 120 ‘Are you discoing tonight?’ I had to stop at this one and ask him where the hell one discoed in Fair Harbor.
2010 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Mar. w10 Somehow we all wind up in the kitchen discoing to Abba's ‘Dancing Queen’.
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