disco — ozdic

Collocations

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ADJ.

all, better, blessed, empty, wild

My parents told me stories about their wild disco nights back in the seventies.

VERB + DISCO

burn, comes, danced, dancing, enter, form, get, getting

She danced at the disco every Saturday night throughout the 1970s.

DISCO + NOUN

ball, condition, explanation, i'm, lyrics, music, night, weekend

The disco music playing at the party got everyone dancing on the floor.

PREP.

down, from, in, in, into, on, out, than

We danced on the disco floor all night long until the music stopped.

ADV.

often, once, only

She only disco danced at her cousin's wedding back in the seventies.

Definitions

noun

1

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

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

A dance, a social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

verb

1

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.

2

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.

noun

1

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.

2

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music

discotheque

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

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

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02

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,

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03

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 no

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04

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

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05

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

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06

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

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, disco is marked as informal, British, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.