go-goadj.2n.3
/ˈɡəʊɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊˌɡoʊ/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
A. adj.2 (chiefly attributive).
1.
a. Displaying or characterized by boundless energy, incessant activity, unrestrained enthusiasm, vigour, etc.Earliest found in the nickname Go Go Sox given to the Chicago White Sox baseball team.
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1951 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos-Tribune 27 June 16/1 (headline) ‘Go, Go, Sox’ increase American League edge.
1951 Mt. Vernon (Illinois) Register-News 12 July 10/6 If the go-go guys from Chicago have another charge left, the time to blast it has come.
1963 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. 23 Mar. 6/2 Cloquet was its usual go-go self Friday night, only some of the fizz was missing.
1965 Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Jrnl. 25 Apr. f5/3 Carole's own name for the glasses is ‘Go-Go Goggles’. Why? ‘Because they make me feel very go-go! Speeded up! Moving fast!’
1990 Film Monthly Apr. 28/4 It's what director Steven Spielberg puts into it that makes this yet another rip-roaring adventure... It's go-go drama all the way.
2007 M. Joulwan Rollergirl i. 2 It was the go-go life that I had dreamed of in college.
b. Displaying or characterized by initiative, enterprise, or adventurousness, esp. in matters of finance or business; ‘go-ahead’. Of an investment, stock exchange fund, etc.: speculative.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [adjective] > types of securities
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well-traded1936
medium-dated1943
off-board1943
go-go1966
unquoted1969
alpha1984
gamma1986
1966 Washington Post 7 Mar. c12/5 (advt.) Your future lives [sic] with Washington's fastest growing go-go company in the newest field.
1967 Holland (Michigan) Evening Sentinel 20 Feb. 2/5 In recent months and years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on the ‘go-go’ funds.
1969 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 3 This will not make our fund any less ‘go-go’; our aim has always been to concentrate on genuine long-term growth stocks.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Dec. 7/3 The go-go countries that are increasing their borrowings, such as Brazil, Mexico or Indonesia.
1989 P. Lynch One Up on Wall St. 33 That fund..was one of the famous go-go funds of this famous go-go era.
1995 Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 29/1 [He] built a go-go personal finance business.
2007 N. Capon Marketing Mavens ix. 247 Most competitors were not emphasizing protection but were stuck in go-go growth pitches.
2. Fashionable, stylish, chic. Cf. go adj. 2. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective]
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hip1939
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a-go-go1960
way-in1960
yé-yé1960
trendy1962
with-it1962
go-go1963
happening1965
mod1965
funky1967
together1968
fash1977
cred1987
1963 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. 141 (advt.) Vera's sassy Orlon ‘go-go’ top.
1964 Punch 8 July 38/1 It's fab..and withitly gogo.
1965 Greenfield (Mass.) Recorder-Gaz. 6 Dec. 9/7 As for the clothing designs, the first ones down the curving staircase..were go-go models for teen-agers, such as a clear plastic coat over a bikini bathing suit.
1981 N.Y. Times 9 Oct. b3 (advt.) Tri-color ski jackets: two go-go styles with nylon shells puffed out with polyfill.
B. n.3
Energy, enthusiasm; = go-go-go n. 2.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss
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song and dance1885
to get a rustle on1891
tea-party1903
stirabout1905
whoop-de-do1910
chichi1928
production1941
go-go1966
1966 Princeton Alumni Weekly 1 Feb. 24/3 While they may not have all the ‘zip’ they'd like, they have a lot more ‘go-go’ than most folks our age.
1973 Texas Monthly Feb. 18/1 I can't provide much go-go anymore, but I can provide hope and encouragement.
2006 S. Marcussen 2000 Carats iii. xxii. 309 They loved the comradeship and to be with younger people charged up with lots of go-go.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
go-goadj.3n.2
/ˈɡəʊɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊˌɡoʊ/ Originally U.S.
A. adj.3 (attributive).
1.
a. Originally: designating or relating to a type of nightclub or discotheque in which dancers are employed, esp. to dance in a sexually provocative or erotic way. Later more generally: designating or relating to sexually provocative or erotic dancing, or the clothing worn by such dancers, or (now somewhat dated) to disco dancing or dancers. Cf. a-go-go adj. 1b.Quot. 19641 may possibly be an example of go-go adj.2 2.
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society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [adjective]
danceable1859
snake-hip1932
a-go-go1964
go-go1964
1964 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 30 July 34/4 Dayton Allen and Bernie Kopell join Steve [Allen] in a chuckle-filled ‘Allen Report to the Nation on Go-Go Nightclubs’.
1964 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 23 Aug. (Midland Empire Mag.) 3 (advt.) Come, see this collection of ‘Disc’ [= discotheque] dresses from the go-everywhere afternoon dress to the more extreme ‘Go Go’ versions.
1964 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 1 Oct. a25/2 The newest [craze] is dancing to records in swank spots... The Lafayette Hotel will get into the act Friday night by opening its Go Go Room.
1965 Billboard 16 Oct. 73/2 (caption) Juke box is employed in show-window tie-in with go-go dancing shows in this Kitty Kelly Shoe Corp. outlet in New York.
1966 H. Nielsen After Midnight (1967) xii. 149 The room exploded into a wild go-go beat.
1970 Jet 28 May 10 The next craze in go-go bars could be live acts of sexual intercourse on stage, some officials believe.
1982 J. Sharkey Your Flake or Mine? ii. 67 The mini-dress..is far too short for her, barely concealing the lower part of her go-go outfit.
1999 Vanity Fair Apr. 280/2 Otherwise forgettable except for an equally brief glimpse of Sinatra dancing in a go-go cage.
2010 Time Out N.Y. 8 Apr. 95/2 ‘It never occurred to me that go-go dancing is something sleazy or untoward in any way,’ Steele says, explaining that he started after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College.
b. spec. used to designate a person associated with such a venue, or who dances in this manner; as go-go dancer, go-go girl, (later also) go-go boy.
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1964 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 1 Oct. e2/9 (advt.) Cocktail hostess needed for glamour sport..Go-go dancers needed also.
1964 Los Angeles Times 30 Oct. iv. 9/3 On Friday and Saturday nights, from 9 p.m. on, wild Watusi go-go girls to dance with.
1968 ‘A. D'Arcangelo’ Homosexual Handbk. 129 I'd heard that it was not only a Dancing Bar, but a Dancing Bar with go-go boys.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters iv. 124 Bold signs..advertise ‘go-go girls’ and ‘live dancers’.
1984 A. Thomas Intertidal Life (1986) i. 81 His old lady had been a topless go-go dancer and now had something terribly wrong with her feet.
1997 E. White Farewell Symphony (1998) iv. 149 On a dais a go-go boy in a white towel was dancing.
2004 Time Out N.Y. 16 Dec. 44/1 Watch the go-go dancers get busy on the bar for horned-up patrons with fistfuls of $$.
2012 Vanity Fair June 127/1 I found out in the National Enquirer that he was once a go-go boy, a male stripper.
c. go-go boot n. Fashion (usually in plural) a type of women's boot popular in the 1960s, typically made of brightly-coloured vinyl or leather, reaching high up the calf, and having a low heel.In quot. 1963 a formal shoe designed to be worn by schoolboys, the name perhaps influenced by go-go adj.2
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > other
wooldingc1425
go-go boot1965
1963 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 26 Aug. 5 (advt.) ‘The Go-Go Boot’ Slip-on with new cube toe, tapered rubber heel, compo-flex soles. In ebony black.]
1965 N.Y. Times 25 Aug. 17/4 Gimbels... A GoGo Boot à la Paris, with back zipper.
1965 Washington Post 27 Aug. c4/1 (advt.) Dream or be seen in this new, seamed-for-shape shift and pajama..with go-go boots a la Coureges!
1967 Targets for Tomorrow 69 Our fine Dutch girls would undoubtedly prefer to swing in go-go boots and miniskirt.
1976 Jet 11 Mar. 56 One lady dresses in white satin, à la Billie Holiday, another sister wears go-go boots and miniskirts.
1983 P. Yates Blondes 115/2 There were the really triff blondes who had Mary Quant white go-go boots with built-in see-through heels.
2011 H. Landalf Flyaway vii. 57 I'm glad I took the time to change into my red vinyl skirt, leopard print top, and white go-go boots.
2. Designating a style of dance music originating in Washington, D.C., characterized by a persistent funk beat, using a mixture of acoustic and electronic instruments, and typically involving call-and-response interaction between performers and audience; of, relating to, or playing in this style.Apparently so called because it was first played at clubs or events known as go-gos (see sense B.).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [adjective] > specific types of dance
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Zydeco1949
smoochy1966
skanking1976
go-go1981
lambada1988
1981 ‘Trouble Funk’ (title of album) Straight up funk go go style.
1983 Washington Post 24 Apr. h7/5 His own group [sc. the Static Disruptors]..is now a ‘biracial go-go band playing music of the black circuit’.
1984 Billboard 21 July 58/3 Washington's ‘go-go’ music scene hasn't yet caught the eye and ear of the trendies in New York and Los Angeles.
1990 Blitz Oct. 79/2 The Moonflowers: ‘Get Higher’..The Rocky & Diesel mix of Britain's first indie go-go record.
1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. vi. 159 At the Man Alive my box of Go Go, electro, Tack Head, early Creation releases and James Brown was occasionally more successful than the groups.
2006 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) (Nexis) 3 Apr. c1 Bands such as Rare Essence and Junkyard..have secured their spot as go-go legends.
B. n.2
U.S. colloquial. Originally: a go-go nightclub, discotheque, etc. (see sense A. 1a) (now disused). In later use: (chiefly in and near Washington, D.C.) an event or establishment at which go-go music (sense A. 2) is played. Now historical.
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > other balls or dances
carolc1300
buttock-ball1698
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ridotto1708
race ball1770
county ball1771
dress ball?1772
promenade1778
waltz1802
hunt ball1807
dignity ball1834
ball-royala1843
polkery1845
jigging-party1872
prom1879
Cinderella dance1883
dinner dance1887
white ball1891
cotillion1898
taxi dance1910
Stampede Dance1950
go-go1965
1965 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. xx. 8/8 Perhaps the most elaborately staged Go-Go in the [Miami] area can be witnessed at the Diplomat Hotel.
1972 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Times 30 Aug. 8 a/1 The two cities were named defendants in actions brought by the three Racine go-gos..after the two city councils had denied new licenses.
1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Mar. (District Weekly) dc2 At a jampacked go-go in Northeast recently, I interviewed Rio Edwards, manager of Trouble Funk, a D.C. band.
2001 K. Lornell & C. C. Stephenson The Beat iii. 75 During this period in Washington, ‘the go-go’ meant the dance hall, party, or function... In these early days, the music didn't have ‘the beat’, but the bands were called go-go bands because they played at the go-go.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
go-gov.
/ˈɡəʊɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊˌɡoʊ/ intransitive. To dance in the manner of a go-go dancer, or (more generally) in a vigorous or sexually explicit manner.
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1964 Time 20 Mar. 62 A glass-walled booth suspended from the ceiling over the GoGo's GoGoing couples.
1966 T.V. Times (Austral.) 4 May 6/4 In clubs they Go-Go in cages on elevated platforms, under red lights.
1990 N. Blei Chi Town (2003) 230 The girls, right behind and above them, are go-going all the while these guys are saying [etc.].
1998 Indiana Daily Student (Bloomington) 5 Oct. 15/8 A few fans took to the stage to go-go on the PA system during the more rock-a-billy numbers.
2007 Nylon Feb. 42 We can't forget a swirly body-paint-covered Goldie Hawn go-going around in a bikini.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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