disco

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Clipping of discotheque (“nightclub for dancing”).

   Burn down the disco / Hang the blessed DJ / Because the music that they constantly play / It says nothing to me about my life

2. 2
   noun

   A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.

   And black music became a hot commodity in the form of disco, its lyrics and rhythm laced with a palpable (even ethnic) amiguity, helping people dance and escape their concerns. Even the cry of “burn, baby, burn”, a popular chant during many a 1960s urban rebellion, was co-opted by the times, becoming the chorus for the 1977 dance hit “Disco Inferno.”

3. 3
   verb

   To dance disco-style dances.

   The cause of his ill health is left a little obscure, and no wonder, because shortly before his dreadful deathbed scene he's well enough to join the women in a wild night of disco dancing. You have not lived until you've seen Martin Landau discoing.

4. 4
   verb

   To go to discotheques.

   Learning that a discoing sex appeal has returned to the runways is a little like hearing that Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb are reuniting.

5. 5
   noun

   discovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)

   You don't need to worry about these details at the complaint stage, we can get them in disco.

6. 6
   noun

   discovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)

   Has the disco come in from the defendants yet? We sent them requests almost six weeks ago.

7. 7
   noun

   a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music

8. 8
   noun

   popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s)

Etymology

From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.