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gogo

American  
[goh-goh] / ˈgoʊ goʊ /
Or go-go

noun

  1. a discotheque, nightclub, etc., with go-go music and dancing.


gogo British  
/ ˈɡɒɡɒ /

noun

  1. ɡrandmother

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of gogo

from Zulu


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He is a leader of the gogo, proud, successful New South, but last week Georgia's Governor George Busbee sounded downright shy about it.

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"A modern man or woman," she says, "may work as an ombudsman, a psephologist, a spokesperson, a gogo dancer or a deejay."

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It's a common myth with a convenient ending-as soon as witnesses who could have recorded the creature's existence come on the scene, the ebu gogo suddenly vanish.

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They are very careful of their hair, washing it with gogo and anointing it with ajonjoli oil2 perfumed with musk.

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