a-go-go

noun

Definition of a-go-gonext
as in disco

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  1. disco
  2. discotheque
  3. cabaret
  4. nightclub
Noun
  • Enter at 3535 Las Vegas Boulevard (The Linq resort) and step into cocktail bar 99 Prince, modeled after a New York City subway station from the ’70s, where so many disco nights began.
    Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Shop Heidi Gardner’s Open Door Heidi Gardner’s Kansas City home pays homage to midcentury style with dash of disco to match the SNL star’s bright energy.
    Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of disco
Noun
  • An antique store turned novelty store Evangeline’s began as an antique and gift store, which shared a building space with a discotheque.
    Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 13 July 2024
  • The second intifada’s grisly campaign of terrorist attacks directed against cafés, pizza parlors, discotheques, and other civilian gathering places killed over 1,000 Israelis and injured many thousands more, leaving deep scars in Israel’s national psyche.
    Michael Scott Doran, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
Definition of discotheque
Noun
  • Justin Vivian Bond, 61, New York, an artist and performer who, in their long career as cabaret singer, has stood up for civil rights, offered solace and humor to members of the gay community and inspired other transgender artists.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The cafe also said Friedman’s original performances there, in 2003, 2004, and 2006, were organized by Sondheim and cabaret singer Barbara Cook, who handled the lighting.
    Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Definition of cabaret
Noun
  • In 2013, bartenders, drink runners and bouncers were arrested in the resort’s nightclubs and pool parties for offering drugs and prostitutes to undercover police officers posed as partygoers (one staffer attempted to sell a cop a full pound of cocaine).
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The city boasts three times more bars and nightclubs than Hong Kong does, but admittedly, the cost is much higher.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of nightclub
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