Noun: disco
| Singular | disco |
| Plural | discos |
Sample Sentences
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Burn down the disco
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Hang the blessed DJ
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Because the music that they constantly play
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It says nothing to me about my life [1986, Morrissey & Johnny Marr, “Panic”, in The World Won’t Listen, performed by The Smiths:]
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She's always in Causton. Pubs and discos... and boys. [1999 February 3, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Strangler's Wood”, in Midsomer Murders:]
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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.” [2009, Marcus Reeves, Somebody Scream!, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like disco
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque. See: French Nouns '
discothèque'.
Verbs referencing "disco"
Dutch Nouns
disco, Romanian Nouns
disco, Finnish Nouns
disko, German Nouns
Disco, German Nouns
Disko.