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disco

[dis-koh] / ˈdɪs koʊ /
NOUN
discotheque
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The crystals and lamé of their outfits played with the light from the disco ball hanging from the ceiling.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Spanish duo Baccara's disco hit from 1977 became Scotland's unofficial national anthem ahead of Euro 2020.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

It happened place by place, inch by inch, a dusty disco ball left in the rummage while a Starbucks or a boutique gym rose to serve the freshly gentrified block around it.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The group’s self-titled, guitar-drenched first album met a desire for hard rock when many popular artists were pivoting to disco and funk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

First, she has kind of an obsession with disco balls.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

I could hear all the traffic in L.A. coming to my house at two o’clock when the pubs and the discos closed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

"People need the opportunity to get out, to clubs, to discos, to meet their friends and then that will hopefully lead on to romantic relationships," said Wayne.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

Lewis English, a consultant for the Acoustic Fish Deterrence Delivery Group, says the lives of 182 million fish a year are on the line and that fish discos effectively scatter their patrons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Ironically, in 1977, the year that Studio 54 opened its doors to a chosen few, 5,000 discos opened across the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

Then Mrs. Kurtz hip-bumped me, the way people did when they danced at discos in the seventies.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

Bill and his partner Emma Slater discoed to Cher’s “Strong Enough,” much to everyone’s amusement and horror.

From Time ● Nov. 5, 2013

The 'runners' wined and dined and discoed, and now they are back to treating us like we didn't exist.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan's Central Park, the box phe nomenon has linked up with the roller-skating craze to produce a bizarre form of discoing that not only defies description but se riously discourages it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mariana says he "is a pretty good dancer, but he would be real good if we could go discoing more often."

From Time Magazine Archive

Christina's whirl is now Manhattan, where she went discoing at Studio 54 last week with Nikos Boukis, a childhood friend whose family is also into ships.

From Time Magazine Archive




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