go-go, a.
(ˈgəʊgəʊ)
[Reduplication of go n. (sense 2) or v. (cf. sense 22 b), influenced perh. by go a.]
a. Fashionable, ‘swinging’, ‘fabulous’, unrestrained; (of funds on the stock exchange) speculative. Cf. go a. 2. b. spec. Of a dancer or a dance, the music, etc., at a discothèque, strip club, etc.: full of verve, excitement, and movement (often deliberately erotic). Also as v. intr., to dance in this manner. Also go-go(-go) n., continual movement, hustle and bustle.
| 1962 V. Packard Pyramid Climbers (1963) xiii. 156 Most executives of promise have a built-in go-go-go. 1964 Punch 8 July 38/1 It's fab..and withitly gogo. 1965 N.Y. Times Book Rev. 31 Jan. 42/4 (Advt.), The gorgeous Go-Go girls are your escorts to the discotheque that swings with the latest in dance crazes. 1966 H. Nielsen After Midnight (1967) xii. 149 The room exploded into a wild go-go beat. 1966 T.V. Times (Austral.) 4 May 6/4 In clubs they Go-Go in cages on elevated platforms, under red lights. 1967 Boston Herald 1 Apr. 17/6 Brash, young Gypsy Joe Harris, squirming and twisting like a go-go dancer. Ibid. 8 May 21/4 Spring has come and it will be ‘Go-Go’ at the Cambridge Boat Club's annual spring regatta. Ibid., Five girls..have volunteered to be Go-Go Regatta Girls. 1968 Economist 3 Aug. 69/2 Tesco..became an early favourite for London's equivalent of New York's go-go funds. 1968 Guardian 23 Dec. 1/3 The main point is that it [sc. journey of spacecraft to the moon] is all go-go-go. 1968 ‘O. Mills’ Sundry Fell Designs ii. 24 It'd take someone with a bit of go-go-go to take on swarming up one of those pylons with a banner. 1968 O. Wynd Sumatra Seven Zero ii. 18 He..stared out..at a Post Office Tower erected by the go-go Britain boys. 1969 Sunday Times 9 Feb. 32/4 Only seven of the big ‘go-go’ funds managed to out-perform the market as a whole. 1969 Winnipeg Free Press Weekly 2 Aug. 18/3 Everybody is ‘on the go’ in this go-go generation. 1970 Daily Tel. 14 Feb. 12 Lurid invitations to see the topless go-go girls..and the pornographic peep-shows. |