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disco

nounverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdɪskəʊ//
  • United States//ˈdɪskoʊ//

A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.

noun

  1. 1

    A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.

    And black music became a hot commodity in the form of disco, its lyrics and rhythm laced with a palpable (even ethnic) amiguity, helping people dance and escape their concerns. Even the cry of “burn, baby, burn”, a popular chant during many a 1960s urban rebellion, was co-opted by the times, becoming the chorus for the 1977 dance hit “Disco Inferno.”

  2. 2

    A dance, a social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

  3. 3

    Variant of discothequeClipping of discotheque (“nightclub for dancing”).

    Burn down the disco Hang the blessed DJ Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

    She's always in Causton. Pubs and discos... and boys.

Etymology

From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.

verb

  1. 1

    To dance disco-style dances.

    The cause of his ill health is left a little obscure, and no wonder, because shortly before his dreadful deathbed scene he's well enough to join the women in a wild night of disco dancing. You have not lived until you've seen Martin Landau discoing.

  2. 2

    To go to discotheques.

    Learning that a discoing sex appeal has returned to the runways is a little like hearing that Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb are reuniting.

noun

  1. 1

    informaldiscovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)

    You don't need to worry about these details at the complaint stage, we can get them in disco.

  2. 2

    informaldiscovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)

    Has the disco come in from the defendants yet? We sent them requests almost six weeks ago.

Etymology

Clipping of discovery.

Forms

plural
discos
past tense
discoed
past participle
discoed
present participle
discoing
third person singular
discos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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