go-go
Americanadjective
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full of energy, vitality, or daring.
the go-go generation.
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stylish, modern, or up-to-date.
the go-go social set.
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of or relating to the music and dancing performed at discotheques or nightclubs.
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performing at a discotheque or nightclub.
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seeking large earnings quickly by trading aggressively and often speculatively in stocks.
a go-go mutual fund.
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marked by swift price upswings due to excessive speculation.
a go-go stock.
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being a time of great prosperity, economic growth, and optimism.
the go-go years of the 1920s.
noun
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go-gos
plural
adjective
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of or relating to discos or the lively music and dancing performed in them
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dynamic or forceful
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of go-go
First recorded in 1960–65; reduplication of go 1, influenced in some senses by à gogo
Example Sentences
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Tim Campbell, CEO of Baillie Gifford—that paradoxically venerable yet go-go Scottish investment house—is waxing eloquent about maybe his favorite stock in the entire universe.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
The arrival of the stock market’s go-go years in the late 1960s drove Wellington to merge with aggressive Boston-based fund manager Thorndike, Doran, Paine & Lewis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
But he added, “I don’t think there’s a lot of appetite for something like the go-go days of 2017, 2018,” referring to an era when producers spent with abandon to grow at a fast pace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
“I was disoriented at first. It’s hard to step out of that go-go mentality.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
She skips away in her black go-go boots and halfway down the block she turns around and smiles at me and says, “Bye, chérie, bye, bye.”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
“My experiences were of go-gos bringing people together,” McDuffie said in an interview.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2019
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