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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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Queer/Bar is a popular LGBTQ+ bar and performance space with nightly drag and gogo performances.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

The inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores used to tell stories of a separate race of little people called the ebu gogo, 3-ft.-tall, hairy human-like creatures that hid in the island's many limestone caves.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The leaves, pounded with a little water, yield a mucilaginous juice highly prized by the natives as a wash for the hair, mixing it with gogo.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

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