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acid house

acid house noun: a style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.

Noun

acid house (uncountable)

  1. A style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.
    • Acid House, this year's underground musical phenomenon, had finally made it into the living rooms of Britain. A nation, encountering for the first time a new music, fashion, and cultural phenomenon, flew into another drug-obsessed moral panic.1989 January, Sean O'Hagan, “Acid House”, in SPIN, SPIN Media LLC, page 64
    Synonyms:
    acid

Synonyms of acid house

Origin of acid house

First appears c. 1988, in the periodical New Musical Express. Likely a reference to acid (“LSD, psychedelic drugs”), influenced by earlier acid rock. See Acid House § Etymology.

Words formed from acid house

Questions about acid house

What does acid house mean?
Acid house means a style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.
What part of speech is acid house?
Acid house is a noun.

Words near acid house in the dictionary

  1. acid chloride
  2. acid dissociation constant
  3. acid dissociation constants
  4. acid drop
  5. acid drops
  6. acid house
  7. acid indigestion
  8. acid jazz
  9. acid lime
  10. acid limes
  11. acid mordant

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