acid house

American  

noun

1. Chiefly British. a style of disco music marked by heavy bass and synthesizer rhythms, often associated with the taking of LSD and MDMA.

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Acid House British  

noun

1. a type of funk-based electronically edited disco music of the late 1980s, which has hypnotic sound effects and is associated with hippy culture and the use of the drug ecstasy

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Etymology

Origin of acid house

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

Other cuts, like “Let Your Body Learn,” became fixtures in acid house and techno DJ sets.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

His new Great Hall Commission, “A Metta Prayer,” turns the museum’s solemnity into a funky, queer-infused love poem to the universe, set to an acid house beat.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023

During the 1980s, a cultural movement spread across the country with the arrival of acid house.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2022

Jon had discovered an acid house club in London called Shoom and took me along.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2020

With it, they made pounding acid house that predicted EDM and worked the rave-rock realm in the years before the 1989 British summer of love that propelled rave culture into the mainstream.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2020