go-go

1964, US, partly from Whisky a Go Go, an influential American nightclub (in turn from French à gogo (“abundant”)),^[1] partly by reduplication of go, from 1962 slang the go (“the rage, fashionable”), from sense the go (“in motion”) as in on the go.^[2][3]

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

go-go (uncountable)

1. (music) A style of funk music from the 1970s.

go-go (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to this style of music.
2. Of or relating to the style of music played at discotheques.
3. Fast and lively.

go-go (third-person singular simple present go-gos, present participle go-going, simple past and past participle go-goed)

1. To dance to this style of music, with the aim to entertain
   • 2002 September 20, 47:24 from the start, in The Whistleblower Who Changed History‎^[1] (podcast), spoken by Laura Palmer, published 2023 via WNYC, archived from the original on 29-6-2023:

     Then he looked at me with all earnestness and said to me, "Miss, Laura, would you go-go for me?"

• go-go boot
• go-go fund
• go-go girl
• go-go juice
• go-go dancer

• à gogo

• GOOG, goog

From English go-go.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːɡoː/, [ˈɡo̞ːɡo̞ː]
• Rhymes: -oːɡoː

go-go

1. (music) go-go

• “go-go”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Unadapted borrowing from English go-go (“go-go”).

go-go

1. (dance) dance with go-go music.

• “go-go” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.