disco
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈdɪskoʊ/
- Archaic
:
música disco
- The DJ played classic disco hits that got everyone dancing all night long.
- disco music
- disco dance
- disco and rock
They do mostly like funk disco sounding stuff and the Driver era.
- They do mostly like funk disco sounding stuff and the Driver era.
- So we also went to Buku festival there in New Orleans, and that's a electric disco, disco music event.
- Have you ever heard that Kylie Minogue song that's like your disco?
Examples
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Moments later, cheesy prom music plays and a mirrored disco ball reflects light across the dance floor.
Fiction book (2002) -
The women cheer, and a disco song starts as Troy does a reprise of his act.
Fiction book (1999) -
And Tony P, leader of the Disco Boys.
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Are you going to go along with it like Kiss did with their Dynasty album, which is disco, you know, with some heavy metal?
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The speakers blast a disco song to which the four passengers sing.
Fiction book (1999) -
The acid rock song ends and an early bad disco hit comes on the jukebox.
Fiction book (1999) -
The key to this reencounter lies in disco as a style of dance.
Academic text (1991) -
True, if I had to choose, I'd pick the category labeled disco because I happen to enjoy dancing.
Fiction book (1999) -
In one scene, disco music blares in the courtyard, coaxing patients to dance.
Academic text (2017) -
The rainbow of colored light comes from dozens of flashing bulbs reflecting off a disco ball.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
16
1.4
Music with a strong beat that people dance to at parties
4
1.9
Dance music with a strong steady beat for dancing in clubs from the 1970s
Compounds
How Danceable
Surface Forms
Morphology
disco = disc (semi-transparent) = disc + o
Formed from 'disc' plus the colloquial suffix '-o' (or clipped from 'discotheque'); the connection to recorded dance music is inferable but requires cultural knowledge.
Etymology
Disco comes from the French discotheque, a word for a place that played recorded music; disc means 'record' and -theque means 'place'. So disco music is the dance style made for those records, especially popular in the 1970s.