Definition of "go-go" []

• Informal Of or relating to discotheques or to the energetic music and dancing performed at discotheques. (adjective)
• Informal Marked by assertive action: a go-go sales executive. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or engaging in a type of speculative, short-term stock-market operation: a go-go fund. (adjective)
• Characterized by the fast growth and development that invites speculative investment: go-go industries such as microprocessing and laser technology. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The so-called go-go years of the 1960s had given way to recession, inflation, a Dow in a prolonged decline—off 45 percent in 1973 alone—and pervasive gloom."
• "The Argument, and it's got a polyrhythmic sound that was influenced by go-go, which is our local, indigenous music."
• "As some of the 1980s’ most successful business figures—Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and Charles Keating among them—were carted off to serve prison terms, and government agencies attempted to sift through the ruins of banks and savings and loans, what had been dubbed the go-go decade seemed to lose some of its luster."