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disco

[dis-koh] / ˈdɪs koʊ /
NOUN
discotheque
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Cohn is perhaps most famously known as the writer behind “Saturday Night Fever,” the film that captured the disco era for a generation.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Photos showed dancing under disco balls, a white cake topped with figurines of a bride and groom and Donald Trump Jr. holding his new wife in his arms as fireworks erupt in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

We studied the choreography, mimicking his strut to the ballroom stage, the hip swivels, the disco arm roll as he sings about getting Brad and Janet a satanic mechanic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

And after a whole Sunday of that—you didn't miss much—the simple ding-dong of the doorbell this morning basically sounded like disco to me.

From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds

Jagger, entranced by the sounds coming out of New York’s discos at the time, contributed the No. 1 “Miss You.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

Bake sales, discos and summer fairs run by volunteers and teachers raised more than £2,000 to make this trip possible.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Mr Williams added that Efan got his first DJ decks as a Christmas present when he was eight, the family having held lots of lockdown discos at home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

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

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

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




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